Ah, the poker steam. If a poker enthusiast states never to have peered down the barrel of an upcoming poker steam – they are either telling a lie or they haven’t been betting very long. This does not imply of course that everyone has been on tilt in the past, some people have awesome willpower and take their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a good poker player, it is especially crucial to treat your wins and your defeats in the same manner – with no emotion. You participate in the game in the same manner you did following a difficult beat as you would after winning a big hand. Many of the poker masters are not enticed by tilting after a bad beat as they are highly experienced and you really should be to.
You must be aware that you will not win each hand you’re in, regardless if you are strongly favored. Hands that normally cause people go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at least believed you were up until you were hit and you lost a huge portion of your bankroll. Bad defeats are bound to happen. Face that certainty right now, I’ll say it once again – if your sister plays cards, if your father enjoys cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – They have all had bad defeats sometime. It’s an inevitable outcome of competing in Hold’em, or in reality any kind of poker.
Since we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for one purpose – to win money, it does make sense that we would play appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you take a big hit in a NL game and your bankroll is down to $120. You have burned $80 in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and held a 10 – 1 edge. And that guy! He sucked you out on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a classic choice for a new bettor to begin tilting. They really just blew too much $$$$ on one round that they should have won and they are angry