Ah, the tilt. If a poker gambler claims at no time to have stared faced over the shadow of a looming steam – they are either telling a lie or they haven’t been betting long enough. This does not mean of course that each and every one has gone on tilt before, a few players have awesome control and take their losses as a loss and keep it at that. To be a brilliant poker player, it is absolutely important to treat your successes and your losses in the same way – with no emotion. You play the game in the same manner you did following a difficult beat like you would after winning a huge hand. Many of the poker pros are not enticed by tilting following an awful loss as they are highly professional and you must be to.
You must understand that you can’t win each and every hand you are in, even if you are the front runner. Hands which usually make players to go on tilt are hands you were the favored or at a minimum believed you were until you were rivered and you burned a big chunk of your stack. Awful defeats are going to happen. Accept that fact right now, I’ll say it again – if your sister enjoys cards, if your father enjoys cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – We all have poor beats sometime. It’s an inevitable effect of competing in Holdem, or for that matter any type of poker.
Since we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for a single reason – to make a profit, it certainly makes sense that we will bet 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 bankroll is only has remaining one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve burned eighty dollars in a hand where you were assured to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and held a 10 – 1 advantage. And that fish! He sucked you out on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a classic opportunity for a fresh gambler to begin tilting. They really just blew too much $$$$ on one hand that they really should have won and they’re aggravated
