You’ve been setting this guy up for an hour. You finally got him right where you want him. Then your world is shattered.
You’re sitting with pocket eights and a very loose aggressive player has just raised the pot in front of you. You call, and the flop comes A83. He fires out a pot-sized bet, so you just call.
The turn is a 5 and he fires out another huge bet. Now, you feel he will call, so you push all in. He doesn’t even hesitate, calling and flipping over his A4. When a 2 comes on the river making his unbelievable gut shot straight, you are stunned.
It’s after hands like these that we see what we are really made of. Do we keep our cool? Or, is it time to get crazy.
If you find yourself going all in by coming over the top of a raise and a re-raise with pocket nines, you have gone on tilt. Something like QQ will be calling and taking your stack most of the time.
The key is to avoid this knee jerk reaction to the bad beat you took. The bad beat was unavoidable, nothing you could do about it. We all tend to try to quickly get these chips back. We force the action. This is tilting.
The best way to avoid a hand like this, right after a bad beat, is to get away from the table as soon as possible. Once you have collected yourself you can go back to playing.
The best thing you can do is know that you played well, and that this is just part of the “variance” of poker. Variance in poker results from the fact that, in almost all of these situations, you will only have some statistical advantage when all the chips go in. Variance defines the skew of these numbers at times. In the long run the variance will flatten out, and you will get what you deserve.
If this is happening a lot, in a short period of time, you are “running bad”. This makes tilting even harder to avoid. You outplay your opponents and keep losing.
Your priced in draws don’t hit. You push with KK only to meet AA. Then, your AA gets cracked by some maniac who goes all in with J10 suited.
It feels like a nightmare you can’t wake up from. This will change. The numbers will correct themselves. You must believe in this fact, or you’re doomed.
It’s the chips you lose making mistakes, when you’re tilting, that don’t come back. Done too much, this can make a winning player a loser, maybe even a big loser. Avoid tilting, and keep yourself profitable. Good luck at the tables.
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