Tilt can be a major leak in certain players’ games if they are unable to keep their emotions in check. Poker is a swingy game with a ton of emotion, and some players are negatively affected by certain developments at the table. That could be after you have suffered a bad beat, or lost a massive pot that was a coin flip for example.
Tilt is quite simply a term for when your play is adversely affected by something negative that just happened recently at the table. We take a deeper look at the term tilt, and how players go about getting through it. Along the way, several players will take bad beats, and often times, that will lead them to go on tilt, meaning they spewed off the rest of their stack by making loose calls, or big gambles that don’t make sense. Of course, when it comes to poker tournaments, only one player is ever truly happy, and that’s the winner. As long as poker has been around, tilt has been an inevitable side effect for players.
