Ah, the tilt. If a poker gambler states never to have looked down the shadow of an approaching poker tilt – they are either lying or they haven’t been competing very long. This doesn’t imply obviously that everyone has been on steam in the past, a few players have great willpower and carry their losses as a loss and keep it at that. To be a strong poker gambler, it is extremely critical to treat your wins and your losses in a similar manner – with little emotion. You compete in the match the same way you did following a hard beat as you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker masters are not attracted by tilting after an awful loss as they are very experienced and you should be to.
You need to be aware that you will not win each hand you’re in, regardless if you are heavily favored. Hands which typically cause players to go on tilt are hands that you were the favorite or at a minimum believed you were up until you were rivered and you burned a large chunk of your stack. Awful losses are going to happen. Embrace that reality right now, I’ll say it again – if your siblings play cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – We all have poor defeats at some point. It’s an unavoidable effect of participating in Texas Hold’em, or for that matter any type of poker.
Since we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to earn money, it certainly makes sense that we would play appropriately to maximize profits. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a big hit in a No Limits game and your bankroll is down to $120. You have squandered eighty dollars in a hand where you were sure to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and enjoyed a ten to one edge. And that amateur! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a quintessential choice for a new player to start tilting. They just burned too much $$$$ on one hand that they really should have won and they’re pissed