Don't Tilt
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by: RobertShiloh
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You call a raise from a loose player with pocket eights. The flop comes A83. He bets the pot, and you call.
The turn is a 5. He bets the pot again. You re-raise, and put him all in. He calls instantly and turns over A4. When a 2 hits the river, you are left pulling your hair out.
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.
After a bad beat, like this one, players often find themselves raising, getting re-raised, and going all in with a hand like pocket sevens. Our opponent has QQ and we are giving our money away. Sound familiar?
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.
You haven't made one single mistake, and you're getting killed. Poker is a tough way to make an easy living. In the long run, this will come back to you. It never feels like it, but you must believe and understand this.
The key is not to get wild in the mean time. Don't play when the numbers are against you. This is what makes losers out of some otherwise good poker players. Simply, DON'T TILT! Now, go to the tables and win some bucks.
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