Just Before you Tilt

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Ah, the tilt. If a poker gambler claims never to have looked down the barrel of an approaching steam – they’re either lying or they haven’t been competing very long. This doesn’t mean of course that every player has gone on steam in the past, a number of players have awesome control and take their losses as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a powerful poker gambler, it is extremely important to treat your wins and your defeats in an identical way – with no emotion. You participate in the match the same way you did after taking a difficult loss as you would after winning a huge hand. Most of the poker pros are not tempted by tilting after a bad beat as they are very professional and you really should be to.

You must be aware that you can not win every hand you’re in, even if you are heavily favored. Hands which normally make players to go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at a minimum thought you were until you were hit and you burned a huge portion of your bankroll. Awful losses are bound to happen. Accept that reality right now, I will say it once again – if your siblings play cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – They have all had bad losses sometime. It is an unavoidable effect of competing in Holdem, or for that matter any type of poker.

Seeing as we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for one reason – to make a profit, it does make sense that we will play appropriately to maximize profits. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a huge blow in a No Limits game and your bankroll is only has remaining one hundred and twenty dollars. You have burned $80 in a round where you were certain to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and held a ten to one edge. And that fish! He bled you dry on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a quintessential opportunity for a new bettor to start tilting. They really just blew too much $$$$ on one round that they really should have won and they are angry