Ah, the tilt. If a poker gambler claims never to have looked over the shadow of an upcoming tilt – they are either telling a lie or they haven’t been competing very long. This doesn’t infer obviously that each and every one has been on tilt before, a handful of players have great control and take their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a strong poker gambler, it is extremely important to approach your wins and your losses in a similar way – with little emotion. You participate in the game in the same manner you did after taking a tough loss like you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker pros are not charmed by tilting after a bad beat as they are incredibly professional and you really should be to.
You need to be aware that you can not win each and every hand you are in, even if you are heavily favored. Hands that frequently make players to go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at a minimum thought you were up until you were side swiped and you squandered a big chunk of your stack. Bad defeats are bound to develop. Face that idea right now, I will say it once more – if your siblings play cards, if your mother enjoys cards, if your grandparents play cards – We all have bad losses sometime. It’s an inevitable experience of playing Texas Hold’em, or in reality any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (most of us) in the game for one purpose – to make $$$$, it would make sense that we will play appropriately to maximize profits. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you take a big hit in a No Limits game and your stack is at one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve burned $80 in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and held a ten to one advantage. And that fish! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a classic opportunity for a brand-new player to start tilting. They basically lost too much money on one round that they should have won and they are agitated