Ah, the tilt. If a poker enthusiast claims never to have looked down the shadow of an upcoming poker tilt – they’re either lying or they have not been competing long enough. This doesn’t imply of course that every player has been on tilt in the past, a number of players have excellent control and carry their losses as a hit and keep it at that. To be a brilliant poker gambler, it’s very critical to treat your wins and your losses in a similar way – with little emotion. You compete in the game the same way you did after taking a difficult loss as you would after winning a big hand. All poker masters are not enticed by tilting following a bad loss as they are incredibly professional and you should be to.
You need to be aware that you cannot win every hand you are in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands which commonly cause people go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at least thought you were up until you were side swiped and you squandered a big chunk of your stack. Awful losses are bound to happen. Embrace that reality right now, I’ll say it once again – if your sister plays cards, if your mother plays cards, if your grandparents play cards – They have all had bad defeats sometime. It’s an inevitable outcome of participating in Texas Holdem, or in reality any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one reason – to acquire $$$$, it certainly makes sense that we would play accordingly to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a gigantic blow in a NL game and your stack is at $120. You have burned $80 in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and held a ten to one edge. And that fiend! He sucked you out on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a quintessential choice for a fresh gambler to start tilting. They basically blew too much money on one round that they should have won and they are aggravated