Ah, the tilt. If a poker gambler states never to have looked down the shadow of an approaching tilt – they’re either lying or they haven’t been competing very long. This doesn’t imply of course that everyone has gone on tilt before, a few players have great willpower and carry their losses as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a powerful poker gambler, it’s especially critical to treat your wins and your losses in the same manner – with little emotion. You compete in the game in the same manner you did after taking a hard loss like you would after winning a big hand. All poker pros are not tempted by tilting following a horrible loss as they are incredibly professional and you should be to.
You have to be certain that you will not win every hand you’re in, even if you are the front runner. Hands which usually make people go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at a minimum believed you were up until you were side swiped and you burned a large portion of your bankroll. Awful losses are going to develop. Accept that reality right now, I’ll say it once again – if your sister plays cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandparents play cards – We all have bad defeats sometime. It is an inevitable effect of playing Texas Hold’em, or really any type of poker.
Since we are assumingly (most of us) in the game for a single purpose – to earn cash, it certainly makes sense that we would gamble accordingly to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a gigantic hit in a No Limits game and your bankroll is at one hundred and twenty dollars. You have lost $80 in a hand where you were certain to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go 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 classic opportunity for a new gambler to start tilting. They really just lost too much cash on one round that they should have won and they are agitated