06.12
Right Before you Tilt
Ah, the poker steam. If a poker enthusiast states at no time to have looked over the barrel of an approaching poker tilt – they are either lying or they have not been competing for a long time. This doesn’t mean of course that every player has gone on steam in the past, a handful of players have excellent control and carry their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a good poker player, it’s very critical to approach your successes and your losses in the same way – with no emotion. You participate in the game the same way you did following a difficult beat as you would after winning a big hand. All poker masters are not enticed by tilting after a horrible defeat as they are highly experienced and you should be to.
You need to be certain that you won’t win each and every hand you are in, regardless if you are heavily favored. Hands that usually make people go on tilt are hands that you were the favored or at a minimum believed you were up until you were rivered and you lost a big chunk of your bankroll. Awful beats are bound to happen. Embrace that certainty right now, I will say it once more – if your brother plays cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandpa enjoys cards – They have all had poor defeats sometime. It’s an inevitable experience of participating in Texas Holdem, or for that matter any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for a single purpose – to make $$$$, it will make sense that we would gamble accordingly to maximize profits. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a big hit in a No Limits game and your bankroll is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve burned eighty dollars in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and enjoyed a 10 – 1 edge. And that amateur! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a quintessential choice for a new player to begin tilting. They basically blew too much money on one hand that they should have won and they’re aggravated