Ah, the tilt. If a poker gambler claims at no time to have peered over the barrel of an upcoming poker tilt – they are either lying or they have not been playing very long. This doesn’t indicate of course that every poker player has gone on tilt in the past, some people have awesome control and take their losses as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a brilliant poker player, it’s absolutely important to approach your wins and your defeats in an identical manner – with little emotion. You compete in the match in the same manner you did after taking a hard loss like you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker masters are not tempted by tilting following an awful defeat as they are highly seasoned and you really should be to.
You have to understand that you can’t win every hand you are in, even if you are the strongest player. Hands which usually make people go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at a minimum believed you were up until you were hit and you lost a huge chunk of your bankroll. Bad losses are going to develop. Face that idea right now, I will say it once again – if your brother plays cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandpa plays cards – We all have poor defeats at some point. It’s an inevitable experience of playing Hold’em, or for that matter any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (most of us) in the game for one reason – to acquire cash, 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 gigantic blow in a No Limits game and your stack is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You have squandered eighty dollars 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 ten to one edge. And that fish! He banged you out on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a classic opportunity for a new bettor to begin tilting. They just lost too much $$$$ on one hand that they really should have won and they’re aggravated
