Just Before you Tilt
Wednesday, 22. June 2022
Ah, the tilt. If a poker enthusiast claims never to have looked over the barrel of an approaching tilt – they are either lying or they haven’t been competing long enough. This doesn’t mean of course that everyone has gone on tilt before, a few players have awesome control and take their squanderings as a loss and keep it at that. To be a strong poker player, it is very important to treat your successes and your defeats in a similar manner – with little emotion. You compete in the game the same way you did following a hard beat as you would after winning a huge hand. Most of the poker masters are not attracted by tilting after a horrible defeat as they are very accomplished and you really should be to.
You need to be certain that you cannot win every hand you are in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands which typically make people go on tilt are hands that you were the favorite or at least thought you were until you were rivered and you burned a large chunk of your stack. Bad beats are bound to happen. Face that reality right now, I will say it once more – if your sister enjoys cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandpa plays cards – We all have bad beats at some point. It’s an unavoidable experience of competing in Texas Holdem, or for that matter any type of poker.
Since we are assumingly (most of us) playing poker for one reason – to win money, it will make sense that we will bet appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a large blow in a No Limits game and your stack is only has remaining one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve lost $80 in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and had a ten to one advantage. And that amateur! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a quintessential opportunity for a brand-new gambler to begin tilting. They basically burned too much money on one round that they should have won and they are pissed
Posted in Poker by Winston