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Ah, the poker steam. If a poker player claims never to have looked over the barrel of a looming steam – they’re either lying or they have not been competing long enough. This doesn’t indicate of course that everyone has been on tilt before, a few players have excellent control and carry their losses as a loss and keep it at that. To be a strong poker player, it is especially critical to approach your wins and your defeats in the same manner – with no emotion. You play the game the same way you did after taking a difficult loss as you would after winning a huge hand. Most of the poker masters are not charmed by tilting following an awful beat as they are particularly seasoned and you must be to.

You need to be aware that you cannot win every hand you’re in, even if you are heavily favored. Hands which commonly cause players to go on tilt are hands that you were the favored or at least believed you were until you were hit and you burned a large chunk of your stack. Bad defeats are going to develop. Face that fact right now, I will say it once more – if your sister plays cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – They have all had poor losses sometime. It’s an unavoidable outcome of competing in Texas Hold’em, or in reality any kind of poker.

Seeing as we are assumingly (most of us) playing poker for a single reason – to make cash, it does make sense that we would bet accordingly to maximize profits. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a gigantic blow in a No Limits game and your bankroll is only has remaining $120. You’ve lost eighty dollars in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and had a 10 – 1 edge. And that guy! He banged you out on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a quintessential opportunity for a new player to start tilting. They really just blew too much money on one hand that they really should have won and they are agitated