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Ah, the poker steam. If a poker gambler states never to have looked over the shadow of an upcoming steam – they’re either lying or they have not been betting long enough. This doesn’t infer of course that each and every one has been on tilt in the past, some people have awesome control and carry their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a great poker player, it is absolutely critical to approach your successes and your defeats in a similar way – with no emotion. You compete in the game in the same manner you did following a hard beat like you would after winning a huge hand. All poker masters are not tempted by tilting after a bad loss as they are highly accomplished and you must be to.

You need to be certain that you can not win every hand you are in, regardless if you are the front runner. Hands that frequently cause people go on tilt are hands that you were the favorite or at least thought you were until you were hit and you burned a big portion of your stack. Bad defeats are bound to happen. Embrace that fact right now, I’ll say it once again – if your brother plays cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandparents play cards – They have all had poor beats sometime. It is an unavoidable experience of competing in Hold’em, or for that matter any type of poker.

After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to make money, it certainly makes sense that we will gamble accordingly to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a huge hit in a NL game and your stack is at $120. You have lost $80 in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and held a ten to one edge. And that amateur! He banged you out on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a quintessential opportunity for a fresh player to start tilting. They really just blew too much money on one round that they should have won and they are agitated