Ah, the poker steam. If a poker enthusiast states never to have looked over the barrel of a looming steam – they are either lying or they haven’t been playing very long. This does not mean of course that every poker player has been on tilt in the past, a handful of players have excellent willpower and take their losses as a hit and keep it at that. To be a great poker player, it is absolutely critical to treat your successes and your defeats in an identical manner – with little emotion. You participate in the game the same way you did after taking a difficult beat as you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker pros are not attracted by tilting following an awful defeat as they are very seasoned and you should be to.

You have to understand that you cannot win every hand you are in, even if you are the front runner. Hands which frequently cause people go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at least believed you were until you were hit and you lost a big portion of your bankroll. Bad losses are going to happen. Face that fact right now, I’ll say it again – if your siblings enjoy cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandpa plays cards – They have all had poor losses sometime. It is an inevitable effect of participating in Holdem, or in reality any type of poker.

Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) in the game for a single reason – to earn money, it certainly makes sense that we would wager appropriately to maximize our profit potential. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you take a big hit in a No Limits game and your bankroll is at $120. You have burned eighty dollars in a round 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 advantage. And that guy! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a quintessential opportunity for a new player to start tilting. They basically blew too much cash on one hand that they should have won and they’re angry