Ah, the tilt. If a poker enthusiast states at no time to have peered down the barrel of an approaching tilt – they are either telling a lie or they haven’t been playing long enough. This does not indicate of course that every poker player has gone on tilt in the past, a handful of people have wonderful control and take their losses as a loss and keep it at that. To be a strong poker gambler, it is especially important to treat your successes and your losses in a similar manner – with little emotion. You participate in the match the same way you did after taking a tough beat like you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker masters are not charmed by tilting after an awful loss as they are highly accomplished and you really should be to.
You have to understand that you won’t win each and every hand you’re in, even if you are the strongest player. Hands that usually cause people go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at least thought you were until you were rivered and you lost a huge portion of your stack. Awful losses are bound to develop. Embrace that certainty right now, I will say it once again – if your sister plays cards, if your mother plays cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – They have all had bad losses at some point. It is an inevitable experience of competing in Holdem, or in reality any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for a single purpose – to acquire $$$$, it would make sense that we will play appropriately to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a huge blow in a No Limits game and your stack is only has remaining one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve lost eighty dollars in a round where you were assured to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and had a 10 – 1 advantage. And that fish! He sucked you out on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a classic opportunity for a new gambler to start tilting. They really just burned too much money on one round that they really should have won and they’re aggravated