Ah, the steam. If a poker enthusiast claims never to have looked down the shadow of an approaching steam – they are either lying or they have not been betting very long. This does not imply of course that every poker player has gone on steam before, a few people have great control and carry their losses as a loss and keep it at that. To be a strong poker player, it is absolutely critical to approach your successes and your defeats in a similar manner – with no emotion. You play the game in the same manner you did after taking a difficult beat as you would after winning a big hand. Most of the poker masters are not attracted by tilting following an awful beat as they are very experienced and you should be to.
You need to understand that you will not win each and every hand you are in, regardless if you are heavily favored. Hands which frequently make people go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at least believed you were until you were rivered and you lost a huge chunk of your stack. Bad losses are going to happen. Embrace that reality right now, I will say it once more – if your brother enjoys cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandpa plays cards – We all have bad losses at some point. It’s an unavoidable experience of competing in Texas Holdem, or for that matter any type of poker.
Since we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to win cash, it would make sense that we will bet appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a gigantic hit in a NL game and your stack is only has remaining one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve squandered $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 advantage. And that fish! He banged you out on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a classic opportunity for a new player to start tilting. They just blew too much money on one round that they should have won and they’re aggravated
January 31st, 2026
Marlee
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