Tilting in Texas Hold’Em Is a Big Mistake – Playing a Freeroll Rake Race Is No Excuse for Bad Play

If you ask many skilled players, they might tell you that Texas hold’em has become one of the toughest games to beat over the past couple of years?

When you first start playing there’s always at least one person who seems to know what they’re doing better than you, but now it’s as if every average Joe and plain Jane knows about pot odds, outs and a number of other previously hidden knowledge.

It’s awful and grand altogether – On one hand you might love the challenge; Nothing beats the feeling of out-playing someone who is either better (on average) or at an even level to you. On the other hand though, you can’t do anything except hate it when those fish suck out and try to tell you what you did wrong – It makes you just want to stay at the table and win back all your chips from them.

It’ll only be a matter of time before they make the same mistakes, only this time the thought is that they won’t be so lucky.

An example of this is when someone limps from under the gun – It appears weak and begs to be raised (unless of course the aim of the limp was to trap those who aren’t aware of a little thing called ‘position’). You can see this happen countless times at an online poker table if you spend long enough there.

It’s even more entertaining to see players limp, then fold to a raise. The best though is when they complain about being raised like it wasn’t on the cards (excuse the pun!).

Of course you should always consider that their limp might be a trap that you don’t expect; In situations where a good player can see it coming from a mile away, a bad player will be too caught up in their high cards to consider that they’re absolutely dominated.

This brings up an important point too – Some people despise the idea of making money from other gamblers. Nobody’s saying they shouldn’t, but in the case of compulsive gamblers who love to reload these players can be the absolute undoing of them.

If people want to gamble it’s entirely their choice, but they can’t have it both ways. It might seem a bit blunt, but how often do you hear poker players complain of “being on-tilt”? Consider that each of these people is likely to make the calls when they’re “absolutely dominated” whether their brains tell them to or not. That’s a lot of bad calls and lost money right there.