08
October
Written by Michelle.
Posted in: Poker
Ah, the steam. If a poker player states never to have stared faced over the shadow of an upcoming poker steam – they’re either telling a lie or they have not been competing very long. This doesn’t mean of course that everyone has been on steam in the past, a handful of players have great control and carry their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a brilliant poker player, it’s very critical to approach your successes and your losses in an identical way – with no emotion. You play the game in the same manner you did following a hard beat like you would after winning a big hand. Most of the poker pros are not tempted by tilting after an awful beat as they are highly experienced and you must be to.
You need to be aware that you can not win every hand you’re in, even if you are heavily favored. Hands which normally make players to go on tilt are hands that you were the favorite or at least thought you were until you were rivered and you lost a big portion of your stack. Awful beats are bound to develop. Embrace that reality right now, I will say it once more – if your sister enjoys cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandpa plays cards – They have all had poor losses sometime. It’s an unavoidable outcome of competing in Texas Hold’em, or for that matter any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (most of us) playing poker for a single reason – to make cash, it certainly makes sense that we would bet appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a large blow in a NL game and your stack is only has remaining one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve squandered eighty dollars in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and enjoyed a ten to one edge. And that fiend! He banged you out on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a quintessential choice for a new gambler to begin tilting. They just blew too much money on one hand that they should have won and they’re angry
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