Ah, the poker steam. If a poker player claims at no time to have looked down the barrel of a looming poker steam – they’re either lying or they have not been gambling very long. This does not mean of course that every player has been on tilt in the past, a few players have great willpower and take their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a good poker gambler, it is especially critical to appraise your successes and your defeats in the same manner – with little emotion. You play the game the same way you did after taking a tough loss like you would after winning a huge hand. All poker masters are not tempted by tilting following a bad defeat as they are highly seasoned and you must be to.
You need to understand that you will not win each hand you are in, even if you are the front runner. Hands that normally cause people go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at least thought you were until you were side swiped and you squandered a huge portion of your bankroll. Bad losses are going to develop. Face that idea right now, I will say it once again – if your siblings play cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – They have all had poor beats sometime. It is an inevitable outcome of participating in Texas Holdem, or for that matter any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (most of us) playing poker for one purpose – to earn a profit, it certainly makes sense that we will gamble accordingly to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a gigantic hit in a NL game and your stack is only has remaining one hundred and twenty dollars. You have squandered $80 in a hand where you were sure to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and held a 10 – 1 advantage. And that amateur! He bled you dry on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a classic opportunity for a fresh player to begin tilting. They just lost too much $$$$ on one round that they should have won and they’re pissed
