Just Before you Tilt
Posted in Poker on 11/19/2018 06:25 pm by Nolan
Ah, the tilt. If a poker gambler claims never to have peered down the barrel of a looming steam – they are either lying or they have not been playing long enough. This doesn’t mean of course that every player has gone on tilt before, a number of people have great control and take their losses as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a brilliant poker player, it is absolutely crucial to treat your wins and your defeats in the same way – with no emotion. You participate in the game the same way you did following a difficult beat as you would after winning a great hand. All poker pros are not tempted by tilting following a bad defeat as they are highly experienced and you really should be to.
You must be certain that you won’t win each hand you’re in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands that typically make people go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at least thought you were up until you were hit and you burned a gigantic portion of your stack. Awful losses are bound to develop. Accept that fact right now, I will say it again – if your sister enjoys cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandpa plays cards – They have all had poor defeats at some point. It’s an inevitable outcome of participating in Hold’em, or really any kind of poker.
Since we are assumingly (most of us) playing poker for one purpose – to make money, it certainly makes sense that we will 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 gigantic hit in a No Limits game and your bankroll is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve lost eighty dollars in a round where you were certain to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and held a 10 – 1 advantage. And that fish! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a classic opportunity for a brand-new bettor to begin tilting. They really just lost too much $$$$ on one round that they really should have won and they are aggravated