Ah, the poker tilt. If a poker gambler states at no time to have stared faced down the barrel of a looming tilt – they’re either lying or they haven’t been competing long enough. This does not mean obviously that every player has been on steam before, a few people have great control and take their losses as a hit and keep it at that. To be a strong poker player, it’s extremely important to appraise your wins and your defeats in the same manner – with little emotion. You compete in the game the same way you did after taking a tough beat like you would after winning a big hand. All poker pros are not attracted by tilting following a horrible loss as they are highly professional and you really should be to.
You need to be aware that you cannot win each hand you are in, even if you are strongly favored. Hands which normally make people go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at a minimum believed you were up until you were hit and you squandered a big chunk of your bankroll. Bad defeats are going to develop. Embrace that fact right now, I’ll say it once again – if your brother plays cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandpa plays cards – We all have bad losses sometime. It is an unavoidable effect of competing in Texas Holdem, or for that matter any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for one purpose – to win cash, it certainly makes sense that we will bet appropriately to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a big hit in a No Limits game and your bankroll is down to $120. You’ve squandered $80 in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and enjoyed a 10 – 1 edge. And that guy! He banged you out on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a classic choice for a new bettor to begin tilting. They really just burned too much money on one round that they really should have won and they’re pissed