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Before you Tilt

Ah, the poker steam. If a poker player states never to have peered down the shadow of an approaching tilt – they are either lying or they haven’t been wagering very long. This does not infer of course that every player has gone on tilt in the past, a handful of players have wonderful control and carry their losses as a loss and keep it at that. To be a powerful poker player, it is especially critical to treat your successes and your losses in the same manner – with no emotion. You compete in the game the same way you did following a hard loss like you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker pros are not enticed by tilting after a horrible defeat as they are particularly experienced and you must be to.

You have to be certain that you can’t win every hand you’re in, even if you are the strongest player. Hands which frequently cause people go on tilt are hands you were the leading choice or at a minimum believed you were until you were rivered and you burned a big chunk of your stack. Awful losses are going to happen. Face that reality right now, I will say it once more – if your brother plays cards, if your mother enjoys cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – They have all had poor defeats at some point. It is an inevitable outcome of competing in Hold’em, or in reality any kind of poker.

After all we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for a single purpose – to make a profit, it certainly makes sense that we would gamble appropriately to maximize profits. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a huge hit in a NL game and your stack is down to $120. You have squandered $80 in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and held a 10 – 1 advantage. And that guy! He sucked you out on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a classic opportunity for a fresh player to begin tilting. They basically burned too much $$$$ on one round that they really should have won and they’re pissed

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