In Advance of a Tilt
by Amari on Jun.22, 2025, under Poker
Ah, the poker tilt. If a poker player claims never to have stared faced down the barrel of a looming poker steam – they are either telling a lie or they haven’t been gambling very long. This doesn’t imply of course that everyone has been on tilt before, some players have wonderful control and take their losses as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a great poker gambler, it’s very critical to treat your wins and your defeats in a similar way – with no emotion. You play the game the same way you did after taking a hard beat like you would after winning a huge hand. Many of the poker masters are not tempted by tilting after a horrible defeat as they are particularly seasoned and you should be to.
You need to be certain that you can’t win each and every hand you are in, even if you are the strongest player. Hands that typically cause players to go on tilt are hands that you were the favored or at least believed you were up until you were side swiped and you burned a large chunk of your stack. Awful losses are bound to happen. Embrace that reality right now, I’ll say it again – if your sister plays cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandpa enjoys cards – They have all had poor losses sometime. It is an unavoidable effect of participating in Hold’em, or for that matter any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) in the game for one purpose – to make $$$$, it does make sense that we will bet appropriately to maximize profits. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a gigantic blow in a No Limits game and your bankroll is at one hundred and twenty dollars. You have burned eighty dollars in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and enjoyed a 10 – 1 advantage. And that amateur! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a quintessential opportunity for a brand-new player to start tilting. They just burned too much $$$$ on one round that they really should have won and they’re agitated
