Just Before you Tilt
Posted in Poker on 05/11/2025 03:25 pm by Marcus
Ah, the poker steam. If a poker enthusiast states at no time to have peered down the barrel of an upcoming poker tilt – they are either lying or they have not been competing for a long time. This does not indicate of course that each and every one has gone on tilt in the past, a few players have great willpower and take their squanderings as a hit and leave it at that. To be a good poker player, it is absolutely important to appraise your wins and your losses in the same way – with no emotion. You compete in the game the same way you did following a difficult loss like you would after winning a big hand. Most of the poker pros are not tempted by tilting following an awful defeat as they are incredibly accomplished and you must be to.
You must understand that you can’t win every hand you’re in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands that usually make players to go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at least thought you were up until you were hit and you lost a gigantic chunk of your stack. Awful beats are going to happen. Embrace that certainty right now, I’ll say it once more – if your sister enjoys cards, if your mother enjoys cards, if your grandma plays cards – They have all had poor defeats at some point. It is an inevitable outcome of playing Hold’em, or for that matter any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for a single reason – to acquire $$$$, 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 deposit, and you take a huge hit in a No Limits game and your bankroll is down to $120. You’ve burned eighty dollars in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and enjoyed a ten to one advantage. And that guy! He banged you out on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a classic choice for a new player to start tilting. They basically lost too much money on one hand that they really should have won and they are aggravated