Remain Calm In Playing Poker: Don’t Steam
Playing too many hands, trying wild bluffs, raising with bad hands, steaming, losing composure, there wouldn’t be enough terms to describe it but your playing a really, really bad poker.
If your emotions get in the way of logical thinking then you are steaming. Making the right decision depends on your level of mental stability. If you are angry, frustrated and pissed off then go home, you are not in the right state of being to play poker. A discipline poker player controls himself, calm exudes him and he is cool and stable. Check out this example of a player on tilt play.
If you lose your job and your house was repossessed by the bank and your boyfriend suddenly leaves you cold, do you think you can make a good decisions?
Steaming is an emotional problem that we are prone to. When poker players steam expect a tilting play or making worst decisions. Bad things happen to all of us and it affects on how we make our decisions.
Once you start steaming, there is no way to stop you. It will only get worst. So the best thing to do is to go home and sleep. Do not waste time on a poker table if you are steaming. Here is an example on what will happen if you let your emotions control your decisions.
It begins with a bad beat and your steaming because you had the superior hand but the winner with a supreme kind of luck won. You’re still thinking about it on the next hand. And then your with a very poor hand this time. And then you try to bet big with a poor hand hoping to get the luck of the guy who win the first hand. And you end up losing! The guy got the pot again for the second row and you’re angry with him and yourself for playing a poor hand to the hilt.
But that’s not where it ended. Matt played well after a number of hands. He thought that the other player had a streak of luck and that’s it. But then, another bad beat made Matt lose thousands of his chips. With this he started remember the first dead beat and the poor hand he played. The he doses of to think about his problems at home and at work… and it never stops..
With this kind of play, Matt will eventually lose his first stake, then his second one, then he will be going to withdraw from his account, then loan from the casino without thinking that lady luck is not on his side tonight.