Just Before you Tilt
by Carmelo on January 10th, 2025
Ah, the poker steam. If a poker gambler states never to have looked down the shadow of an upcoming poker steam – they’re either telling a lie or they haven’t been competing very long. This does not indicate of course that every player has been on steam before, a few people have great control and take their losses as a loss and keep it at that. To be a strong poker player, it is absolutely crucial to approach your successes and your losses in an identical way – with little emotion. You participate in the match the same way you did after taking a difficult beat as you would after winning a big hand. All poker pros are not attracted by tilting following an awful beat as they are very accomplished and you must be to.
You need to be aware that you can’t win each hand you’re in, regardless if you are the front runner. Hands that commonly make players to go on tilt are hands you were the favored or at a minimum thought you were up until you were side swiped and you burned a gigantic chunk of your stack. Awful losses are bound to develop. Accept that reality right now, I’ll say it once again – if your siblings enjoy cards, if your mother plays cards, if your grandma plays cards – They have all had poor losses sometime. It’s an unavoidable effect of participating in Texas Holdem, or for that matter any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to make a profit, it certainly makes sense that we will play appropriately to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a huge hit in a No Limits game and your stack is at $120. You have lost eighty dollars 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 advantage. And that guy! He bled you dry on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a classic choice for a fresh player to start tilting. They just lost too much $$$$ on one hand that they really should have won and they’re agitated
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