Ah, the poker tilt. If a poker gambler claims at no time to have peered over the barrel of an upcoming tilt – they are either telling a lie or they have not been wagering long enough. This doesn’t imply of course that each and every one has been on tilt in the past, a few players have great control and carry their losses as a loss and keep it at that. To be a good poker player, it’s very important to approach your wins and your defeats in a similar way – with little emotion. You play the match the same way you did after taking a hard beat as you would after winning a big hand. All poker masters are not charmed by tilting following a horrible defeat as they are very professional and you must be to.
You have to be certain that you won’t win every hand you’re in, even if you are the front runner. Hands that frequently cause players to go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at a minimum thought you were up until you were side swiped and you burned a gigantic chunk of your stack. Awful beats are going to develop. Accept that certainty right now, I’ll say it again – if your brother enjoys cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandpa enjoys cards – They have all had poor losses sometime. It’s an unavoidable experience of competing in Holdem, or for that matter any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for a single purpose – to earn cash, it does make sense that we would gamble appropriately to maximize profits. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a gigantic blow in a No Limits game and your bankroll is down to $120. You have squandered $80 in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and had a 10 – 1 edge. And that amateur! He bled you dry on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a quintessential choice for a new gambler to start tilting. They really just blew too much money on one round that they really should have won and they’re pissed