Ah, the steam. If a poker player claims never to have looked over the shadow of a looming tilt – they are either lying or they haven’t been gambling for a long time. This doesn’t imply obviously that every poker player has been on steam in the past, a few people have wonderful willpower and take their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a great poker gambler, it’s especially critical to approach your successes and your losses in an identical way – with no emotion. You participate in the game the same way you did following a hard beat as you would after winning a great hand. All poker pros are not tempted by tilting after an awful beat as they are incredibly seasoned and you must be to.
You have to understand that you cannot win every hand you are in, even if you are strongly favored. Hands which normally cause people go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at least thought you were until you were rivered and you burned a large chunk of your stack. Bad defeats are going to develop. Accept that fact right now, I’ll say it again – if your siblings enjoy cards, if your mother enjoys cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – They have all had bad losses at some point. It is an inevitable outcome of playing Texas Hold’em, or really any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for one purpose – to make cash, it does make sense that we will wager appropriately 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 at one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve lost $80 in a round where you were sure to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and enjoyed a 10 – 1 advantage. And that fish! He sucked you out on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a quintessential choice for a new player to start tilting. They just blew too much cash on one hand that they really should have won and they are angry