Ah, the poker tilt. If a poker player claims at no time to have stared faced down the barrel of a looming tilt – they’re either lying or they have not been gambling for a long time. This does not infer obviously that each and every one has gone on tilt in the past, a number of players have wonderful control and take their losses as a hit and leave it at that. To be a great poker player, it is absolutely crucial to treat your successes and your losses in a similar manner – with little emotion. You participate in the game in the same manner you did following a difficult beat like you would after winning a big hand. All poker pros are not attracted by tilting after an awful beat as they are very professional and you should be to.
You have to understand that you won’t win each and every hand you’re in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands that usually make people go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at a minimum believed you were until you were side swiped and you lost a big chunk of your bankroll. Bad beats are bound to develop. Face that fact right now, I’ll say it once more – if your brother enjoys cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – We all have poor losses at some point. It’s an unavoidable effect of playing Holdem, or for that matter any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to earn $$$$, it certainly makes sense that we will play accordingly to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a large blow in a No Limits game and your bankroll is only has remaining $120. You have 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 edge. And that amateur! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a classic opportunity for a fresh bettor to begin tilting. They basically lost too much money on one round that they should have won and they’re pissed
