Ah, the poker steam. If a poker player claims at no time to have looked down the shadow of a looming steam – they are either lying or they haven’t been competing for a long time. This does not mean obviously that every poker player has been on steam in the past, a few players have wonderful control and carry their losses as a loss and keep it at that. To be a great poker player, it is absolutely important to treat your successes and your defeats in a similar way – with no emotion. You participate in the game the same way you did following a difficult beat like you would after winning a big hand. All poker pros are not tempted by tilting after a horrible defeat as they are very accomplished and you should be to.
You have to be certain that you will not win each and every hand you are in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands that typically cause people go on tilt are hands that you were the favored or at least thought you were up until you were hit and you burned a big portion of your stack. Awful defeats are bound to happen. Face that idea right now, I’ll say it again – if your brother enjoys cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandparents play cards – We all have poor beats sometime. It’s an unavoidable experience of competing in Texas Hold’em, or really any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (most of us) playing poker for a single reason – to win $$$$, it certainly makes sense that we would gamble accordingly to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a large hit in a NL game and your stack is only has remaining one hundred and twenty dollars. You have squandered $80 in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and held a 10 – 1 advantage. And that fish! He sucked you out on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a classic choice for a new gambler to start tilting. They basically burned too much money on one round that they should have won and they’re aggravated