25 Nov 08


Written by Jennifer. No comments

Before you Tilt

[ English ]

Ah, the poker tilt. If a poker player claims never to have stared faced down the shadow of an approaching steam – they’re either telling a lie or they haven’t been gambling long enough. This does not imply obviously that each and every one has gone on tilt in the past, some players have great control and carry their losses as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a brilliant poker player, it is absolutely crucial to treat your wins and your defeats in the same manner – with little emotion. You play the game in the same manner you did following a tough loss like you would after winning a big hand. All poker pros are not attracted by tilting after a awful loss as they are highly experienced and you really should be to.

You have to be aware that you won’t win each hand you’re in, even if you are heavily favored. Hands that usually cause people go on tilt are hands that you were the favorite or at least believed you were until you were rivered and you squandered a gigantic chunk of your bankroll. Bad defeats are going to develop. Embrace that certainty right now, I’ll say it once again – if your sister plays cards, if your father enjoys cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – They have all had poor defeats sometime. It’s an unavoidable effect of playing texas 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 $$$$, it does make sense that we will play appropriately to maximixe our profit potential. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you take a large hit in a NL game and your stack is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve lost eighty dollars in a round 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 edge. And that fiend! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a quintessential choice for a brand-new player to start tilting. They really just burned too much money on one round that they should have won and they are agitated


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