In Advance of a Tilt
by Cheyenne on Monday, May 5th, 2025
Ah, the poker steam. If a poker gambler claims at no time to have looked down the barrel of a looming steam – they are either telling a lie or they haven’t been gambling for a long time. This does not imply of course that every player has been on tilt before, a few players have great willpower and carry their squanderings as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a great poker gambler, it is very important to treat your successes and your losses in a similar way – with no emotion. You play the game in the same manner you did following a tough loss like you would after winning a huge hand. Many of the poker pros are not enticed by tilting after an awful defeat as they are incredibly professional and you really should be to.
You need to be certain that you cannot win every hand you’re in, regardless if you are heavily favored. Hands that commonly make players to go on tilt are hands you were the favored or at a minimum thought you were up until you were hit and you burned a large chunk of your bankroll. Bad losses are going to develop. Embrace that certainty right now, I’ll say it once again – if your siblings enjoy cards, if your mother plays cards, if your grandparents play cards – We all have bad defeats at some point. It’s an unavoidable outcome of competing in Holdem, or for that matter any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (most of us) playing poker for a single reason – to make money, it certainly makes sense that we will gamble accordingly to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you take a huge hit in a No Limits game and your bankroll is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You have lost $80 in a hand where you were sure to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and held a 10 – 1 edge. And that fish! He sucked you out on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a classic opportunity for a brand-new gambler to start tilting. They just blew too much money on one round that they should have won and they’re aggravated
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