Before you Tilt
Ah, the tilt. If a poker player claims never to have stared faced over the shadow of a looming poker steam – they are either lying or they have not been wagering long enough. This does not mean of course that every poker player has been on tilt before, a handful of people have great willpower and carry their losses as a hit and keep it at that. To be a great poker gambler, it is especially important to appraise your wins and your defeats in the same manner – with little emotion. You play the match the same way you did following a difficult beat like you would after winning a great hand. All poker pros are not charmed by tilting following an awful defeat as they are highly experienced and you should be to.
You need to be aware that you won’t win each and every hand you are in, regardless if you are heavily favored. Hands that frequently make people go on tilt are hands that you were the favorite or at a minimum thought you were up until you were hit and you squandered a huge portion of your bankroll. Bad defeats are going to happen. Face that reality right now, I’ll say it again – if your sister enjoys cards, if your father enjoys cards, if your grandpa enjoys cards – We all have bad losses sometime. It’s an inevitable effect of playing Texas Holdem, or for that matter any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (most of us) in the game for one purpose – to earn $$$$, it certainly makes sense that we will play appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you take a large hit in a NL game and your bankroll is only has remaining one hundred and twenty dollars. You have lost $80 in a hand where you were assured to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and had a ten to one advantage. And that fiend! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a quintessential opportunity for a fresh gambler to start tilting. They really just burned too much cash on one round that they should have won and they are angry