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Ah, the tilt. If a poker enthusiast states at no time to have stared faced down the shadow of an approaching tilt – they’re either lying or they haven’t been competing very long. This doesn’t mean of course that each and every one has gone on tilt in the past, a number of players have excellent willpower and take their losses as a hit and keep it at that. To be a powerful poker gambler, it’s extremely crucial to treat your successes and your losses in the same way – with little emotion. You play the game the same way you did after taking a tough beat like you would after winning a big hand. All poker masters are not tempted by tilting following a horrible loss as they are highly seasoned and you should be to.

You need to understand that you can’t win every hand you are in, even if you are heavily favored. Hands that normally make people go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at a minimum thought you were up until you were hit and you squandered a huge portion of your stack. Bad defeats are bound to happen. Accept that certainty right now, I’ll say it again – if your siblings enjoy cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandpa enjoys cards – We all have bad beats at some point. It’s an unavoidable experience of competing in Hold’em, or for that matter any kind of poker.

After all we are assumingly (almost all of us) in the game for one purpose – to earn a profit, it does make sense that we would gamble appropriately to maximize profits. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a large hit in a NL game and your bankroll is at $120. You’ve burned $80 in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and held a ten to one advantage. And that amateur! He banged you out on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a quintessential opportunity for a fresh bettor to start tilting. They just burned too much money on one round that they should have won and they are agitated