Ah, the poker steam. If a poker player states never to have looked down the shadow of an upcoming poker steam – they are either telling a lie or they have not been gambling long enough. This does not imply obviously that every poker player has been on steam in the past, a few people have great control and take their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a good poker player, it is especially crucial to treat your wins and your losses in a similar manner – with no emotion. You compete in the game the same way you did following a hard beat like you would after winning a huge hand. Most of the poker pros are not tempted by tilting after an awful beat as they are particularly seasoned and you really should be to.
You must be aware that you can’t win each hand you are in, regardless if you are strongly favored. Hands that usually make people go on tilt are hands you were the leading choice or at least thought you were until you were rivered and you burned a big chunk of your stack. Bad beats are going to happen. Embrace that certainty right now, I will say it once again – if your brother enjoys cards, if your father enjoys cards, if your grandpa enjoys cards – They have all had bad defeats sometime. It’s an unavoidable experience of participating in Hold’em, or really any kind of poker.
Since we are assumingly (most of us) in the game for one purpose – to earn cash, it certainly makes sense that we will play accordingly to maximize profits. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a huge blow in a NL game and your bankroll is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve lost 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 had a 10 – 1 edge. And that fiend! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a classic opportunity for a fresh bettor to start tilting. They just burned too much cash on one hand that they really should have won and they are agitated