Ah, the poker tilt. If a poker gambler states at no time to have peered down the barrel of an approaching tilt – they’re either lying or they have not been betting for a long time. This doesn’t indicate of course that everyone has gone on tilt before, a few players have wonderful control and take their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a powerful poker player, it’s especially critical to treat your wins and your defeats in an identical way – with little emotion. You play the match the same way you did after taking a hard beat as you would after winning a huge hand. Many of the poker masters are not tempted by tilting after a horrible defeat as they are particularly experienced and you should be to.
You need to be certain that you won’t win each and every hand you are in, even if you are the front runner. Hands that typically make players to go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at least thought you were until you were rivered and you burned a big chunk of your bankroll. Bad beats are going to happen. Accept that reality right now, I will say it once more – if your sister plays cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – We all have poor defeats sometime. It’s an unavoidable outcome of playing Holdem, or for that matter any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (most of us) in the game for a single purpose – to win cash, it certainly makes 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 gigantic hit in a NL game and your bankroll is at one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve lost 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 had a ten to one advantage. And that fish! He sucked you out on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a classic opportunity for a new player to begin tilting. They really just lost too much cash on one hand that they should have won and they’re pissed