Before you Tilt
Posted in Poker on 05/27/2025 05:25 am by Shelby
Ah, the tilt. If a poker gambler states never to have looked down the shadow of a looming tilt – they’re either lying or they have not been competing for a long time. This does not infer obviously that every player has gone on tilt before, a handful of players have excellent willpower and carry their losses as a loss and keep it at that. To be a powerful poker player, it’s especially important to appraise your wins and your defeats in a similar manner – with no emotion. You play the match in the same manner you did following a hard loss as you would after winning a great hand. All poker pros are not charmed by tilting following a horrible loss as they are highly experienced and you should be to.
You need to understand that you can’t win each and every hand you are in, even if you are the front runner. Hands that usually make players to go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at least thought you were up until you were rivered and you lost a gigantic chunk of your bankroll. Awful beats are going to develop. Embrace that certainty right now, I’ll say it again – if your sister enjoys cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – We all have bad losses sometime. It’s an unavoidable experience of competing in Hold’em, or for that matter any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for a single reason – to make $$$$, it does make sense that we would play accordingly to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you take a huge blow in a No Limits game and your stack is at $120. You have burned $80 in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and had a ten to one edge. And that fish! He banged you out on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a classic choice for a fresh gambler to begin tilting. They really just burned too much cash on one hand that they really should have won and they’re pissed