29
February
Written by Darwin.
Posted in: Poker
Ah, the poker tilt. If a poker player claims never to have peered down the barrel of an approaching steam – they’re either lying or they have not been playing very long. This doesn’t mean of course that everyone has gone on tilt before, some people have great willpower and carry their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a strong poker player, it’s especially important to approach your successes and your defeats in a similar way – with little emotion. You participate in the match in the same manner you did after taking a hard beat as you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker masters are not tempted by tilting following an awful beat as they are incredibly seasoned and you should be to.
You must understand that you will not win each hand you’re in, even if you are strongly favored. Hands which normally cause people go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at a minimum thought you were up until you were hit and you lost a big chunk of your stack. Awful losses are going to happen. Accept that idea right now, I’ll say it once more – if your brother plays cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandma plays cards – We all have bad losses at some point. It’s an inevitable experience of playing Holdem, or in reality any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for a single reason – to acquire money, it certainly makes sense that we will play accordingly to maximize profits. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a large blow in a No Limits game and your stack is at $120. You have burned $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 edge. And that amateur! He sucked you out on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a quintessential opportunity for a fresh gambler to start tilting. They just blew too much $$$$ on one round that they really should have won and they’re pissed
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