17
May
Written by Cordell.
Posted in: Poker
Ah, the tilt. If a poker player states at no time to have stared faced over the barrel of a looming tilt – they are either lying or they haven’t been betting for a long time. This doesn’t infer of course that every player has gone on tilt in the past, some people have wonderful control and take their losses as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a strong poker player, it is especially important to treat your successes and your defeats in the same way – with little emotion. You compete in the game the same way you did following a difficult beat as you would after winning a huge hand. Most of the poker pros are not attracted by tilting after a bad beat as they are very seasoned and you must be to.
You need to be certain that you can’t win each and every hand you are in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands which commonly cause people go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at a minimum thought you were until you were side swiped and you burned a large chunk of your bankroll. Bad losses are bound to develop. Accept that fact right now, I’ll say it again – if your brother plays cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandma plays cards – They have all had bad defeats sometime. It is an inevitable experience of playing Holdem, or for that matter any kind of poker.
Since we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to win cash, it certainly makes sense that we would wager appropriately to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a big hit in a No Limits game and your bankroll is down to $120. You’ve burned eighty dollars in a hand where you were certain to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and enjoyed a ten to one edge. And that amateur! He sucked you out on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a quintessential choice for a brand-new player to begin tilting. They basically blew too much cash on one hand that they should have won and they’re agitated
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