Ah, the poker steam. If a poker gambler states never to have stared faced over the shadow of an approaching steam – they are either telling a lie or they have not been betting very long. This doesn’t mean of course that each and every one has been on tilt in the past, some players have wonderful willpower and carry their losses as a loss and keep it at that. To be a powerful poker gambler, it is very crucial to approach your wins and your defeats in the same manner – with little emotion. You participate in the match in the same manner you did after taking a tough loss like you would after winning a huge hand. All poker pros are not enticed by tilting after a horrible loss as they are very professional and you should be to.
You have to be certain that you can not win each and every hand you’re in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands which frequently cause people go on tilt are hands you were the leading choice or at a minimum thought you were up until you were side swiped and you burned a large portion of your bankroll. Bad losses are going to develop. Face that fact right now, I’ll say it once more – if your sister plays cards, if your mother enjoys cards, if your grandpa enjoys cards – They have all had bad losses sometime. It’s an unavoidable experience of playing Hold’em, or for that matter any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to earn $$$$, it does make sense that we will bet appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a big blow in a NL game and your stack is at $120. You’ve 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 had a 10 – 1 advantage. And that guy! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a classic opportunity for a new gambler to start tilting. They just burned too much money on one hand that they really should have won and they are agitated