Ah, the steam. If a poker enthusiast states never to have peered over the barrel of an approaching tilt – they’re either lying or they have not been wagering very long. This doesn’t indicate of course that everyone has gone on tilt in the past, a handful of people have awesome control and carry their losses as a hit and leave it at that. To be a powerful poker player, it is very important to approach your wins and your defeats in a similar way – with little emotion. You play the match the same way you did following a hard beat like you would after winning a big hand. Most of the poker pros are not charmed by tilting after a bad loss as they are highly professional and you must be to.
You have to be certain that you won’t win each and every hand you are in, even if you are the strongest player. Hands which typically cause people go on tilt are hands that you were the favored or at a minimum believed you were until you were side swiped and you lost a big portion of your bankroll. Awful losses are going to happen. Accept that certainty right now, I will say it once again – if your siblings enjoy cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – They have all had bad beats at some point. It’s an inevitable outcome of competing in Texas Holdem, or for that matter any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to make a profit, it certainly makes sense that we would play accordingly to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a huge blow in a NL game and your stack is at one hundred and twenty dollars. You have lost $80 in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and enjoyed a 10 – 1 advantage. And that guy! He bled you dry on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a classic opportunity for a fresh player to start tilting. They just lost too much $$$$ on one hand that they really should have won and they’re aggravated