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Ah, the steam. If a poker gambler claims never to have stared faced down the barrel of an approaching tilt – they are either lying or they have not been gambling long enough. This doesn’t infer obviously that every poker player has been on steam in the past, a number of players have awesome willpower and carry their losses as a hit and leave it at that. To be a good poker player, it is especially critical to treat your successes and your defeats in a similar way – with little emotion. You participate in the match in the same manner you did after taking a tough beat like you would after winning a great hand. Most of the poker masters are not tempted by tilting after an awful beat as they are particularly experienced and you should be to.

You must understand that you won’t win every hand you are in, even if you are the front runner. Hands which normally cause players to go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at a minimum thought you were until you were side swiped and you burned a big chunk of your stack. Awful losses are going to develop. Accept that fact right now, I will say it once again – if your sister plays cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – We all have poor losses at some point. It’s an inevitable outcome of competing in Hold’em, or really any kind of poker.

Since we are assumingly (most of us) playing poker for a single purpose – to win money, it would make 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 NL game and your bankroll is at one hundred and twenty dollars. You have squandered eighty dollars in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and enjoyed a 10 – 1 edge. And that guy! He sucked you out on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a quintessential opportunity for a fresh gambler to begin tilting. They just lost too much money on one round that they should have won and they are agitated

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