Ah, the steam. If a poker gambler claims at no time to have peered down the shadow of a looming steam – they’re either lying or they haven’t been competing for a long time. This doesn’t imply of course that each and every one has been on steam before, a few people have wonderful control and take their losses as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a strong poker player, it’s especially crucial to approach your successes and your losses in a similar manner – with little emotion. You participate in the game the same way you did following a hard loss as you would after winning a huge hand. Most of the poker masters are not attracted by tilting following a horrible loss as they are highly experienced and you really should be to.
You need to be aware that you can’t win each hand you are in, regardless if you are heavily favored. Hands which commonly make players to go on tilt are hands that you were the favorite or at a minimum believed you were until you were rivered and you burned a large chunk of your stack. Awful losses are going to happen. Embrace that certainty right now, I’ll say it once again – if your siblings play cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandpa plays cards – They have all had bad losses at some point. It’s an unavoidable outcome of competing in Texas Holdem, or really any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for one purpose – to make $$$$, it certainly makes sense that we would gamble appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you take a huge hit in a NL game and your stack is only has remaining $120. You’ve lost $80 in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and enjoyed a 10 – 1 advantage. And that guy! He bled you dry on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a classic opportunity for a fresh bettor to begin tilting. They really just lost too much cash on one round that they should have won and they are angry