Right Before you Tilt
Wednesday, 18. February 2026
Ah, the tilt. If a poker player claims never to have looked over the shadow of a looming tilt – they’re either telling a lie or they haven’t been wagering long enough. This doesn’t mean obviously that every player has gone on tilt in the past, a handful of players have great control and carry their squanderings as a loss and leave it at that. To be a good poker gambler, it is absolutely important to approach your wins and your losses in an identical way – with little emotion. You participate in the game in the same manner you did after taking a hard beat like you would after winning a huge hand. Most of the poker masters are not tempted by tilting following an awful loss as they are incredibly experienced and you must be to.
You have to be aware that you won’t win each and every hand you’re in, even if you are the front runner. Hands that normally cause players to go on tilt are hands that you were the favored or at a minimum believed you were up until you were hit and you burned a large chunk of your stack. Bad defeats are going to develop. Face that reality right now, I’ll say it once more – if your brother enjoys cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandma plays cards – We all have poor losses sometime. It’s an inevitable effect of participating in Holdem, or really any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for a single purpose – to win cash, it will make sense that we would bet appropriately to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a big hit in a NL game and your stack is only has remaining one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve lost $80 in a hand where you were certain to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and had a ten to one edge. And that fiend! He sucked you out on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a classic opportunity for a new bettor to start tilting. They just blew too much money on one hand that they really should have won and they are pissed
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