In Advance of a Tilt
Posted in Poker on 02/22/2010 09:21 am by Valerie
Ah, the steam. If a poker player states never to have peered over the shadow of an approaching tilt – they are either lying or they have not been playing long enough. This doesn’t infer obviously that everyone has been on tilt before, some players have wonderful willpower and take their losses as a hit and leave it at that. To be a powerful poker player, it’s absolutely critical to appraise your wins and your losses in the same way – with no emotion. You compete in the game the same way you did following a difficult loss like you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker masters are not tempted by tilting after a bad beat as they are particularly accomplished and you really should be to.
You must understand that you won’t win each and every hand you’re in, even if you are the front runner. Hands which normally cause players to go on tilt are hands you were the favored or at least thought you were up until you were rivered and you burned a big portion of your bankroll. Awful beats are going to happen. Accept that certainty right now, I’ll say it again – if your siblings play cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – We all have bad losses at some point. It is an unavoidable experience of playing Texas Hold’em, or in reality any type of poker.
Since we are assumingly (most of us) in the game for a single purpose – to win money, it does make sense that we will play accordingly to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a huge hit in a NL game and your stack is only has remaining $120. You have burned eighty dollars in a hand where you were sure to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and had a 10 – 1 advantage. And that amateur! He sucked you out on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a classic choice for a new bettor to start tilting. They basically lost too much cash on one round that they should have won and they’re agitated