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Every table I've played from 3-6 and up, there's always two or three guys who've managed to accumulate chips - either by the hand of luck or through ABC play - then lose ALL their chips slowly because of a bad beat or a string of of bad beat or a string of hands where they just don't win.
The worse part about Tilt is not the fact that you don't recognize you're losing. The worse part about Tilt is that you over prioritize winning your chips back over playing correctly or cutting down your losses - stopping the bleeding. You play more hands, you play a wider range of hands, and you're waiting to hit that one hand that will bring you back EVEN.
A MAJORITY of the time, players that fall into this trap are losing players anyway. Them coming back even WILL alter their shortterm play - more confidence -, but NOT alter their how they FUNDAMENTALLY play.
PASSIVE LOOSE CANNONS who lose all their money everytime are not affected by bad beats because their draw - incorrectly - to give bad beats.
Who is the best poker player? I don't know, come back in five years and see who's still around. Same principle applies in the shortterm. Look at a table and remember who's there. Come back in two, three, four hours, and see who's STILL there. That usually says something.
All gamblers are FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED in some way. The best gamblers have a lot of gamble in them - too much -. A real gambler would put everything on the line if he felt he had an edge.
Tells, player profiles, and player intentions.
If you play against someone for a long enough time, you'll know everything about them. You'll know the range of hands they play - dependant on position or not - , when they will draw out, why they do what they do, and what type of a person they are. INFORMATION is EVERYTHING. NEVER reveal your hole cards UNLESS the shorttterm benefits - creating more action against you or less action against you - WILL happen.
A player shows his card for the following reasons.
To show off a bluff or semibluff against a guy who folded a better hand. This is psycologically damaging and may put him on TILT.
To show that you really had a monster or the made hand. If you had a monster w/ a monster preflop starting hand, you show to get more respect on all subsequent hands. You're saying you're holding the goods. Don't play against me when I have a made hand unless yours is better than mine.
If you hand a monster or a hand w/ a junk or marginal hand, this is to show you play a wide range of hands.
Putting the FEAR OF GOD into an opponent is MORE important than getting respect which is only SLIGHTLY more important than getting NO RESPECT from your opponent. How you play, what you play, and why you play it, is your foundation. Without a solid foundation, everything else doesn't matter.
LHE is a game of decisions based on a set of presumptions, factors, and expected outcomes. There are only a finite about of possible circumstances that will occur in a lifetime. The key is making the best decisions - either playing 55%+ favorable situations available at the time.
Not sitting down at a table might hurt your ego. In fact sitting down and losing all your money might actually feel disappointing but satisfying since you played and you at least TRIED. This is all BULLSHIT. A coffee grinder who's doing his 40+ hours a week to feed his family is ten times more respectable than a man who puts everything on BLACK. 1