Aside from bad beats, a long stretch of poor hands can make anyone frustrated and start being impatient and eventually get frustrated and play any card. You might also be ticked off by you being fooled by your opponent’s bluff.

There are several degrees and kinds of tilting in poker. It is not always just going all in with every hand but there are also subtler ways of showing a tilt. You might also single out on an opponent and think that you can out maneuver him or her but you will be risking losing your chips this way.

The most common mistake of someone who is going on tilt is to chase draws. Here you call on a hand even though the odds do not favor you. With these situations, someone who is going on tilt still call even though their usual call would be to fold.

A poker player who is tilting tries to recover the money that has been lost by chasing for potential rake ins. The tendency is to play riskier and put in more money and in the long run mismanage your bankroll. You will be playing on higher stakes which you really cannot afford and you will be putting yourself into losing a lot of money.

A good poker player knows how to manage a tilt and how to offset it, so at the end of the day, they will still end up with some take home money.

There is nothing that you can do. Bad beats really come in poker but what is important is how you go over the top of your frustration so that you play your next hand well.

Don’t bite the bait and try to recover the money you unjustly lost by doing stupid moves. You need to keep your head working. You have to get rid of they-win-rags-then-can-win-some-too attitude. You will just end up losing money. Lucky if you lose a few dollars but I got a friend who wasted $10,000 in a matter of six hours because of bad beats and he ended up chasing the money through the session.

How to overcome a bad beat?

There are just two solutions that we know off that really makes sense.

1. Take some break

This is the best way to get hold of your thoughts and over come a series of bad beats. You can take a few moments off or if you need several days to get it out of your system then that is what you should do. Taking a break will save you a lot of hard earned money.

Leaving the game does not mean you will not be able to recover the chips that you threw away. Cooling down will help you go back to your rational frame of thoughts. There will be another game after a few minutes, or maybe after a day or two, or maybe a week. You don’t have to hurry.

1. Setting Expectations

There are odds calculator that you can use so you know what pot equity you have. Let us say you are holding an Ace-Ace and then the pre-flop shows A-K, then you have a 90% chance of winning the hand. You also have to consider the 10% that you may lose the pot.

Bad beats will be there. Most of the time. Winners in the long stretch will really have to be familiar with them. I am pretty sure you will learn how to look bad beat on the eye. Give him that annoying smirk and make him run away.

Everyone checks to me and I bet out, $20. One Belgian guy who I later found has a poker blog called Sven’s Tight Poker Tips calls my bet and we see the turn which comes a seven. Still no draws out there, and Sven checks to me. I bet out $55 into a $67 pot, and get called again. The pot is now up to $177 which was good for me as I wanted to be able to move about $120 at the end anyway.

The river hits another seven, a great card for me — especially when all of a sudden Sven bets out $180. Beautiful, right? I shove after him, and he instacalls flipping over A7.

WHAAT? Nigga I was cruising, and he hit running sevens to beat my boat. Sickness. He was all apologetic afterwards, but wtf I’m so sure the dealer was in on this…….. SICKNESS.