Before you Tilt
Ah, the tilt. If a poker gambler states at no time to have looked down the barrel of a looming steam – they are either telling a lie or they haven’t been gambling long enough. This doesn’t imply obviously that everyone has gone on tilt in the past, a few players have excellent willpower and take their losses as a hit and leave it at that. To be a great poker gambler, it is especially important to treat your wins and your defeats in the same manner – with no emotion. You play the match in the same manner you did after taking a tough loss as you would after winning a great hand. All poker pros are not attracted by tilting following a bad defeat as they are highly experienced and you must be to.
You have to be aware that you will not win every hand you’re in, regardless if you are the front runner. Hands that usually cause players to go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at least thought you were up until you were side swiped and you burned a gigantic portion of your bankroll. Bad defeats are bound to happen. Embrace that certainty right now, I’ll say it again – if your sister enjoys cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – We all have bad defeats at some point. It is an unavoidable effect of playing Hold’em, or really any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for one reason – to make money, it does make sense that we will play accordingly to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you take a huge blow in a NL game and your stack is down to $120. You have lost $80 in a round 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 here. This is a quintessential choice for a new gambler to start tilting. They really just burned too much $$$$ on one hand that they should have won and they’re pissed