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Before you Tilt
January 29th, 2010 by Deacon
[ English ]

Ah, the tilt. If a poker enthusiast states never to have peered over the barrel of an upcoming steam – they’re either lying or they haven’t been gambling long enough. This does not mean of course that each and every one has gone on tilt before, a handful of players have awesome willpower and carry their losses as a hit and leave it at that. To be a good poker gambler, it is especially crucial to treat your successes and your defeats in an identical manner – with little emotion. You participate in the match in the same manner you did following a difficult beat like you would after winning a big hand. Most of the poker masters are not attracted by tilting after a bad beat as they are very seasoned and you should be to.

You have to be aware that you cannot win each and every hand you are in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands that frequently make players to go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at a minimum believed you were until you were rivered and you burned a huge portion of your stack. Awful losses are bound to develop. Embrace that fact right now, I will say it once more – if your siblings play cards, if your mother plays cards, if your grandparents play cards – They have all had bad losses sometime. It’s an inevitable outcome of competing in Texas Hold’em, or for that matter any type of poker.

After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for a single purpose – to make money, it certainly makes sense that we will play appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a big hit in a No Limits game and your bankroll is at $120. You’ve squandered $80 in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and held a 10 – 1 edge. And that fiend! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a classic choice for a fresh player to start tilting. They really just burned too much $$$$ on one round that they really should have won and they’re aggravated


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