Before you Tilt
Ah, the poker steam. If a poker gambler claims never to have looked over the barrel of an upcoming steam – they’re either lying or they have not been betting very long. This doesn’t imply obviously that every player has been on steam before, a few players have awesome willpower and carry their losses as a hit and keep it at that. To be a great poker player, it is very important to appraise your successes and your defeats in a similar manner – with little emotion. You compete in the game in the same manner you did following a tough beat like you would after winning a great hand. All poker pros are not tempted by tilting following an awful loss as they are highly seasoned and you should be to.
You must be aware that you can’t win each and every hand you are in, even if you are the front runner. Hands which frequently cause people go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at a minimum believed you were until you were side swiped and you lost a big chunk of your stack. Awful losses are bound to happen. Accept that reality right now, I will say it once again – if your sister plays cards, if your mother enjoys cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – We all have poor defeats sometime. It is an unavoidable outcome of participating in Hold’em, or in reality any type of poker.
Since we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for one purpose – to acquire money, it certainly makes sense that we would wager accordingly to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a big blow in a No Limits game and your stack is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You have lost eighty dollars in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and enjoyed a ten to one edge. And that fiend! He bled you dry on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a classic opportunity for a new player to start tilting. They just blew too much money on one hand that they really should have won and they are angry
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