Ah, the poker steam. If a poker enthusiast claims never to have looked over the barrel of an approaching steam – they are either lying or they haven’t been competing long enough. This does not mean obviously that every poker player has been on steam before, a handful of players have great control and carry their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a good poker gambler, it’s very crucial to treat your wins and your losses in the same way – with no emotion. You participate in the match the same way you did following a tough beat as you would after winning a huge hand. Most of the poker pros are not charmed by tilting after a horrible loss as they are incredibly seasoned and you must be to.
You need to be certain that you can not win each hand you’re in, even if you are the front runner. Hands that usually make players to go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at a minimum believed you were until you were rivered and you squandered a gigantic portion of your bankroll. Bad beats are going to develop. Accept that reality right now, I’ll say it again – if your sister enjoys cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandma plays cards – We all have bad losses at some point. It is an inevitable outcome of participating in Holdem, or for that matter any type of poker.
Since we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for one reason – to win cash, it does make sense that we would play accordingly to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a large blow in a No Limits game and your bankroll is down to $120. You have burned eighty dollars in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and held a ten to one edge. And that guy! He sucked you out on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a quintessential choice for a fresh gambler to start tilting. They really just blew too much money on one round that they really should have won and they are pissed