Ah, the tilt. If a poker gambler claims at no time to have stared faced down the barrel of an upcoming poker steam – they’re either lying or they have not been gambling very long. This doesn’t indicate of course that every poker player has been on tilt in the past, some people have great control and take their losses as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a strong poker gambler, it’s especially important to approach your successes and your losses in the same way – with no emotion. You play the match in the same manner you did after taking a hard loss as you would after winning a huge hand. Most of the poker pros are not attracted by tilting following a horrible defeat as they are highly seasoned and you should be to.
You need to understand that you cannot win every hand you are in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands which commonly make people go on tilt are hands that you were the favorite or at least thought you were up until you were side swiped and you lost a gigantic portion of your stack. Bad losses are bound to happen. Embrace that idea right now, I’ll say it once again – if your brother plays cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – We all have poor defeats at some point. It’s an inevitable effect of participating in Hold’em, or for that matter any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) in the game for a single purpose – to earn money, it certainly makes sense that we will gamble appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you take a large blow in a NL game and your bankroll is only has remaining one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve lost eighty dollars in a hand where you were certain to pick 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 stop right here. This is a quintessential choice for a new player to begin tilting. They really just burned too much money on one hand that they really should have won and they’re pissed