Just Before you Tilt
Ah, the tilt. If a poker player claims never to have looked over the barrel of an upcoming poker tilt – they are either telling a lie or they have not been betting very long. This does not infer of course that every player has been on tilt in the past, a few people have wonderful willpower and carry their losses as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a strong poker player, it is absolutely important to approach your wins and your losses in a similar manner – with no emotion. You participate in the match in the same manner you did following a tough beat like you would after winning a big hand. Most of the poker masters are not tempted by tilting after a bad loss as they are very seasoned and you really should be to.
You must understand that you cannot win each and every hand you are in, even if you are the front runner. Hands that normally cause people go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at a minimum believed you were up until you were hit and you squandered a big portion of your stack. Awful defeats are going to develop. Face that idea right now, I’ll say it again – if your brother plays cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandma plays cards – They have all had bad defeats sometime. It is an unavoidable experience of playing Texas Holdem, or in reality any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to earn $$$$, it certainly makes sense that we will play accordingly to maximize profits. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you take a huge blow in a NL game and your stack is down to $120. You have lost eighty dollars in a hand where you were sure to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and had a 10 – 1 advantage. And that guy! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a classic opportunity for a brand-new gambler to start tilting. They basically lost too much cash on one round that they should have won and they’re agitated
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