Ah, the poker tilt. If a poker player states never to have looked over the barrel of an approaching tilt – they’re either lying or they have not been competing very long. This does not indicate of course that each and every one has gone on steam before, some players have wonderful control and carry their losses as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a great poker player, it’s extremely important to approach your wins and your defeats in a similar way – with no emotion. You play the game in the same manner you did after taking a hard beat like you would after winning a huge hand. Most of the poker masters are not charmed by tilting after an awful defeat as they are very professional and you must be to.
You need to be aware that you cannot win every hand you are in, regardless if you are strongly favored. Hands which usually make people go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at least believed you were up until you were side swiped and you lost a large chunk of your stack. Awful defeats are going to develop. Face that certainty right now, I’ll say it once more – if your brother enjoys cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – We all have poor defeats sometime. It’s an inevitable outcome of participating in Hold’em, or really any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for a single purpose – to earn money, it would make sense that we would bet accordingly to maximize our profit potential. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a gigantic blow in a No Limits game and your bankroll is at one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve burned eighty dollars in a hand where you were certain 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 fish! He sucked you out on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a classic opportunity for a brand-new bettor to begin tilting. They basically lost too much $$$$ on one round that they really should have won and they’re agitated