Right Before you Tilt
by Bo on Thursday, May 8th, 2025
Ah, the steam. If a poker player states never to have stared faced down the barrel of an approaching tilt – they’re either telling a lie or they have not been competing long enough. This doesn’t mean of course that each and every one has been on steam in the past, a handful of players have awesome control and carry their losses as a hit and keep it at that. To be a great poker player, it is especially crucial to appraise your wins and your losses in an identical manner – with no emotion. You play the match the same way you did after taking a hard loss as you would after winning a great hand. All poker masters are not charmed by tilting after an awful beat as they are highly seasoned and you must be to.
You need to be aware that you cannot win every hand you’re in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands that typically make players to go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at least thought you were until you were side swiped and you lost a gigantic portion of your stack. Awful defeats are going to happen. Face that fact right now, I’ll say it once more – if your brother enjoys cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – They have all had bad beats sometime. It’s an unavoidable experience of playing Texas Hold’em, or really any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to win money, it does make sense that we would play appropriately to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you take a gigantic blow in a NL game and your bankroll is down to $120. You have burned eighty dollars in a round where you were sure to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and held a ten to one advantage. And that fish! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a classic opportunity for a brand-new player to begin tilting. They really just burned too much $$$$ on one round that they really should have won and they’re angry
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