Ah, the steam. If a poker enthusiast claims never to have looked over the barrel of an approaching tilt – they are either lying or they have not been gambling very long. This does not indicate of course that every player has gone on tilt in the past, a few people have wonderful willpower and take their losses as a loss and keep it at that. To be a strong poker player, it’s extremely critical to approach your successes and your defeats in the same way – with little emotion. You participate in the game the same way you did after taking a tough loss as you would after winning a big hand. All poker masters are not tempted by tilting after a horrible beat as they are incredibly seasoned and you should be to.
You must understand that you will not win each hand you are in, even if you are the strongest player. Hands which usually cause 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 squandered a huge portion of your stack. Bad defeats are going to develop. Embrace that certainty right now, I will say it once again – if your sister plays cards, if your mother plays cards, if your grandparents play cards – We all have bad losses at some point. It’s an unavoidable outcome of playing Holdem, or really any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (most of us) in the game for a single purpose – to earn $$$$, it does make sense that we would gamble appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a large blow in a No Limits game and your bankroll is at $120. You have burned $80 in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and held a 10 – 1 advantage. And that guy! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a quintessential opportunity for a new gambler to start tilting. They really just burned too much $$$$ on one hand that they should have won and they’re angry
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