12.11
Right Before you Tilt
Ah, the poker steam. If a poker enthusiast claims never to have stared faced over the barrel of an upcoming tilt – they are either lying or they haven’t been competing for a long time. This doesn’t infer of course that each and every one has been on tilt before, some players have wonderful willpower and take their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a brilliant poker gambler, it is very important to approach your wins and your defeats in an identical manner – with little emotion. You participate in the game the same way you did after taking a tough beat as you would after winning a big hand. Most of the poker masters are not enticed by tilting following an awful beat as they are highly seasoned and you must be to.
You have to be aware that you cannot win every hand you are in, even if you are the front runner. Hands that typically cause players to go on tilt are hands that you were the favorite or at least thought you were up until you were side swiped and you lost a large portion of your stack. Bad beats are bound to develop. Embrace that reality right now, I’ll say it again – if your brother plays cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandparents play cards – We all have bad beats sometime. It is an inevitable outcome of playing Hold’em, or in reality any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for one reason – to make $$$$, it does make sense that we will play accordingly to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a huge blow in a No Limits game and your stack is down to $120. You’ve squandered eighty dollars in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and enjoyed a ten to one advantage. And that guy! He bled you dry on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a quintessential opportunity for a fresh gambler to start tilting. They basically lost too much $$$$ on one hand that they really should have won and they’re agitated