18
June
Written by Cordell.
Posted in: Poker
Ah, the poker steam. If a poker player claims at no time to have looked over the barrel of an approaching poker tilt – they’re either lying or they haven’t been playing for a long time. This does not indicate of course that every player has been on tilt in the past, a handful of players have great willpower and take their losses as a loss and keep it at that. To be a strong poker gambler, it’s especially crucial to appraise your successes and your defeats in the same manner – with little emotion. You compete in the match in the same manner you did after taking a difficult beat like you would after winning a great hand. All poker pros are not tempted by tilting after an awful defeat as they are incredibly seasoned and you really should be to.
You have to be aware that you won’t win each and every hand you’re in, even if you are the front runner. Hands which typically 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. Embrace that fact right now, I’ll say it again – if your sister plays cards, if your father enjoys cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – We all have poor losses sometime. It is an inevitable effect of participating in Hold’em, or for that matter any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to earn cash, it would make sense that we would gamble appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a huge blow in a NL game and your stack is only has remaining one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve burned eighty dollars in a round where you were assured to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and had a ten to one advantage. And that fiend! He banged you out on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a classic choice for a brand-new player to start tilting. They basically burned too much cash on one hand that they should have won and they are angry
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