In Advance of a Tilt
Thursday, 16. August 2012
Ah, the poker steam. If a poker gambler states never to have peered over the barrel of an approaching tilt – they’re either lying or they haven’t been playing for a long time. This does not mean of course that everyone has been on steam in the past, a handful of people have great control and carry their losses as a hit and leave it at that. To be a great poker player, it is absolutely important to approach your successes and your losses in a similar way – with little emotion. You participate in the game the same way you did after taking a difficult loss as you would after winning a big hand. All poker masters are not tempted by tilting following a horrible defeat as they are very experienced and you should be to.
You have to be certain that you can not win each hand you’re in, regardless if you are strongly favored. Hands which normally make people go on tilt are hands you were the leading choice or at a minimum thought you were up until you were rivered and you burned a large portion of your bankroll. Awful losses are going to develop. Accept that reality right now, I’ll say it once again – if your siblings play cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandpa enjoys cards – They have all had bad defeats at some point. It is an unavoidable outcome of participating in Texas Holdem, or in reality any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for a single purpose – to acquire money, it will make sense that we would play appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a big hit in a No Limits game and your stack is only has remaining one hundred and twenty dollars. You have lost eighty dollars in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and enjoyed a 10 – 1 edge. And that fiend! He sucked you out on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a classic opportunity for a new gambler to start tilting. They just burned too much money on one round that they should have won and they’re aggravated
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