Ah, the poker steam. If a poker player states at no time to have looked down the shadow of a looming steam – they’re either telling a lie or they have not been betting for a long time. This does not imply of course that every poker player has been on steam before, some people have awesome control and take their losses as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a strong poker player, it’s absolutely critical to treat your wins and your losses in a similar way – with no emotion. You participate in the match the same way you did following a hard beat as you would after winning a big hand. All poker pros are not tempted by tilting following a bad beat as they are incredibly accomplished and you must be to.
You have to be aware that you can’t win each and every hand you are in, even if you are the strongest player. Hands that commonly make people go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at least believed you were up until you were side swiped and you burned a large chunk of your stack. Bad defeats are bound to happen. Face that fact right now, I’ll say it once more – if your brother enjoys cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandma plays cards – They have all had poor defeats sometime. It’s an inevitable experience of playing Hold’em, or in reality any kind of poker.
Since we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to acquire money, it will make sense that we would play appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a huge blow in a No Limits game and your bankroll is only has remaining one hundred and twenty dollars. You have burned eighty dollars in a hand where you were sure to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and held a 10 – 1 edge. And that fiend! He sucked you out on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a quintessential opportunity for a new player to start tilting. They really just lost too much money on one round that they should have won and they’re agitated