In Advance of a Tilt
Ah, the poker tilt. If a poker player states never to have looked down the shadow of an upcoming poker tilt – they’re either lying or they have not been competing for a long time. This doesn’t mean obviously that every player has gone on tilt in the past, a handful of players have great control and take their losses as a hit and leave it at that. To be a great poker gambler, it’s especially important to appraise your wins and your defeats in the same manner – with no emotion. You compete in the game in the same manner you did after taking a tough loss as you would after winning a huge hand. Many of the poker pros are not attracted by tilting following an awful beat as they are highly accomplished and you should be to.
You need to understand that you won’t win each hand you are in, even if you are the strongest player. Hands that frequently cause people go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at least thought you were until you were hit and you burned a gigantic portion of your bankroll. Bad losses are going to develop. Embrace that idea right now, I will say it once again – if your sister plays cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – They have all had bad beats at some point. It is an unavoidable effect of competing in Texas Holdem, or in reality any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (almost all of us) in the game for a single purpose – to win a profit, it certainly makes sense that we would gamble appropriately to maximize profits. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a large blow in a NL game and your bankroll is at $120. You have burned eighty dollars in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and enjoyed a 10 – 1 edge. And that guy! He bled you dry on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a classic choice for a new gambler to start tilting. They basically blew too much $$$$ on one hand that they really should have won and they’re agitated