Ah, the steam. If a poker enthusiast claims at no time to have peered down the barrel of an approaching tilt – they are either telling a lie or they haven’t been betting long enough. This does not infer of course that every player has gone on steam in the past, some people have excellent willpower and carry their losses as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a strong poker gambler, it’s absolutely important to treat your wins and your defeats in an identical manner – with little emotion. You play the game the same way you did following a tough loss like you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker masters are not charmed by tilting following a horrible defeat as they are highly professional and you must be to.
You have to understand that you will not win each and every hand you are in, regardless if you are the front runner. Hands that usually cause players to go on tilt are hands that you were the favored or at least thought you were up until you were hit and you lost a gigantic chunk of your stack. Bad beats are bound to happen. Embrace that idea right now, I’ll say it once more – if your sister enjoys cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandpa enjoys cards – They have all had bad beats sometime. It’s an inevitable experience of participating in Texas Hold’em, or really any type of poker.
Since we are assumingly (almost all of us) in the game for a single reason – to earn cash, it certainly makes sense that we would gamble appropriately to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you take a huge blow in a No Limits game and your bankroll is down to $120. You have lost eighty dollars in a round where you were sure to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and had a 10 – 1 edge. And that guy! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a classic opportunity for a fresh bettor to start tilting. They just lost too much money on one hand that they really should have won and they are angry
