Ah, the poker tilt. If a poker player states at no time to have peered down the barrel of an approaching tilt – they’re either telling a lie or they haven’t been competing very long. This doesn’t infer obviously that every player has gone on tilt in the past, a few people have great willpower and take their losses as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a good poker player, it’s extremely important to appraise your wins and your defeats in a similar way – with no emotion. You play the match in the same manner you did after taking a difficult loss like you would after winning a huge hand. All poker pros are not tempted by tilting after an awful beat as they are particularly accomplished and you must be to.
You have to understand that you can’t win every hand you are in, regardless if you are heavily favored. Hands which typically cause people go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at least believed you were until you were hit and you burned a big chunk of your stack. Bad beats are going to happen. Embrace that fact right now, I’ll say it again – if your siblings enjoy cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandma plays cards – They have all had bad beats at some point. It is an unavoidable effect of participating in Texas Hold’em, or in reality any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) in the game for one reason – to earn a profit, it does make sense that we will gamble accordingly to maximize profits. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a huge hit in a NL game and your stack is only has remaining $120. You’ve squandered $80 in a hand where you were certain to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and held a 10 – 1 edge. And that guy! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a classic opportunity for a brand-new bettor to begin tilting. They basically burned too much $$$$ on one hand that they should have won and they are angry