Ah, the steam. If a poker player states never to have looked over the barrel of a looming poker steam – they are either lying or they have not been betting very long. This does not infer obviously that everyone has been on tilt in the past, some people have awesome control and take their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a brilliant poker gambler, it’s extremely crucial to treat your wins and your defeats in a similar manner – with little emotion. You participate in the game the same way you did following a tough beat as you would after winning a huge hand. All poker masters are not attracted by tilting following a horrible defeat as they are highly professional and you really should be to.
You need to be aware that you will not win each hand you are in, even if you are heavily favored. Hands which normally make players to go on tilt are hands you were the leading choice or at a minimum thought you were until you were hit and you burned a huge portion of your bankroll. Awful defeats are going to happen. Embrace that fact right now, I’ll say it again – if your brother plays cards, if your father enjoys cards, if your grandpa enjoys cards – They have all had poor beats at some point. It is an unavoidable effect of competing in Hold’em, or really any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (most of us) in the game for a single purpose – to acquire $$$$, it will make sense that we would play accordingly to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a big blow in a NL game and your stack is only has remaining $120. You’ve burned eighty dollars in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and enjoyed a 10 – 1 advantage. And that fiend! He bled you dry on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a classic choice for a new gambler to begin tilting. They just lost too much $$$$ on one hand that they really should have won and they are pissed
