Before you Tilt
Ah, the steam. If a poker gambler claims never to have peered over the shadow of an upcoming steam – they are either lying or they have not been playing very long. This doesn’t mean obviously that everyone has been on steam before, a few players have great control and carry their losses as a hit and leave it at that. To be a great poker player, it’s especially important to treat your wins and your losses in a similar manner – with little emotion. You compete in the match the same way you did after taking a tough loss as you would after winning a huge hand. All poker pros are not attracted by tilting following a horrible defeat as they are incredibly experienced and you really should be to.
You must understand that you will not win each hand you’re in, regardless if you are the front runner. Hands that usually make 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 huge chunk of your bankroll. Bad defeats are going to develop. Face that certainty right now, I will say it once more – if your brother enjoys cards, if your mother plays cards, if your grandpa enjoys cards – They have all had bad beats at some point. It is an inevitable outcome of playing Hold’em, or really any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (almost all of us) in the game for one reason – to earn $$$$, it will make sense that we would play accordingly to maximize our profit potential. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you take a large blow in a NL game and your stack is at $120. You’ve squandered eighty dollars in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and enjoyed a ten to one edge. And that guy! He sucked you out on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a classic choice for a brand-new bettor to begin tilting. They really just blew too much $$$$ on one hand that they really should have won and they’re aggravated