Ah, the steam. If a poker enthusiast claims never to have looked down the shadow of a looming poker steam – they are either telling a lie or they haven’t been betting very long. This does not indicate of course that every player has gone on tilt in the past, some people have wonderful control and take their squanderings as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a great poker player, it is very important to treat your successes and your defeats in an identical way – with no emotion. You compete in the match in the same manner you did following a difficult beat like you would after winning a huge hand. Most of the poker pros are not tempted by tilting following a horrible defeat as they are highly professional and you should be to.
You need to be certain that you can not win every hand you are in, even if you are the front runner. Hands which commonly make players to go on tilt are hands that you were the favored or at least believed you were up until you were side swiped and you burned a huge chunk of your stack. Awful defeats are bound to happen. Face that fact right now, I’ll say it again – if your brother enjoys cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandpa plays cards – We all have poor defeats sometime. It’s an unavoidable effect of competing in Texas Holdem, or for that matter any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for one purpose – to win $$$$, it would make sense that we would wager appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a large hit in a No Limits game and your stack is only has remaining $120. You have burned eighty dollars in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and enjoyed a ten to one edge. And that fish! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a quintessential choice for a brand-new gambler to start tilting. They just burned too much $$$$ on one hand that they really should have won and they are angry
October 31st, 2023
Everett
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