Before you Tilt
Posted in Poker on 03/17/2019 09:25 am by Rudy
Ah, the steam. If a poker enthusiast states at no time to have stared faced down the barrel of an upcoming poker tilt – they’re either lying or they have not been playing long enough. This doesn’t mean of course that every player has gone on steam in the past, a few people have great willpower and take their squanderings as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a powerful poker gambler, it is extremely important to treat your successes and your losses in the same way – with little emotion. You participate in the match the same way you did after taking a tough loss as you would after winning a great hand. All poker masters are not enticed by tilting following a horrible loss as they are particularly professional and you really should be to.
You need to be aware that you will not win each and every hand you are in, even if you are heavily favored. Hands which normally make players to go on tilt are hands that you were the favored or at a minimum believed you were up until you were side swiped and you lost a huge portion of your bankroll. Awful defeats are bound to develop. Embrace that certainty right now, I’ll say it once more – if your siblings enjoy cards, if your father enjoys cards, if your grandpa plays cards – They have all had bad losses sometime. It’s an unavoidable effect of playing Texas Hold’em, or really any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one reason – to win money, it certainly makes sense that we would play appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a large blow in a No Limits game and your stack is down to $120. You have squandered eighty dollars in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and had a 10 – 1 edge. And that guy! He bled you dry on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a classic opportunity for a new bettor to start tilting. They basically blew too much $$$$ on one hand that they really should have won and they’re agitated