11.10
In Advance of a Tilt
Ah, the steam. If a poker enthusiast claims never to have peered down the shadow of an approaching poker steam – they are either telling a lie or they have not been playing for a long time. This doesn’t mean of course that every poker player has gone on tilt before, some players have great willpower and take their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a good poker gambler, it’s very critical to approach your wins and your losses in a similar way – with no emotion. You compete in the game in the same manner you did following a tough beat like you would after winning a huge hand. Many of the poker masters are not enticed by tilting following a horrible defeat as they are very experienced and you really should be to.
You have to understand that you won’t win every hand you’re in, even if you are strongly favored. Hands which frequently cause people go on tilt are hands that you were the favored or at least believed you were up until you were hit and you lost a gigantic chunk of your stack. Bad losses are going to happen. Face that certainty right now, I will say it again – if your brother enjoys cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – We all have bad beats at some point. It is an inevitable effect of playing Holdem, or really any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (most of us) in the game for a single reason – to make money, it certainly makes sense that we would gamble accordingly to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s 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 down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You have burned $80 in a hand where you were sure to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and had a ten to one edge. And that fish! He sucked you out on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a classic opportunity for a brand-new player to begin tilting. They basically burned too much money on one hand that they really should have won and they’re angry