One of the most profitable situations in online poker is right after a bad beat. Of course the conditions have to be set exactly and you have to have full control over your steam, or tilt as some call it, factor.

See with time, you’ll slowly lose your tilt factor. In fact that’s why so many pros can play the way they do. They take their bad beats and don’t go on tilt or steam after one of them like a lot of inexperienced players do.

So, with tilt factor under control, let’s say you just took a bad bet. Here’s how you set up the fake steam.

Actually, let me revise. You don’t set it up, but rather you get dealt a very strong poker hand right after a bad beat. Here is where you can make a huge move and it’s all in the psychology of the play. See, a lot of players will project when at the table. They’ll think of what they would be doing, and a lot of times a big move after a bad beat looks like a desperation push to steal or buy a pot, or it looks like you’re trying to bluff a marginal hand, or maybe you’re just so tilted that you push with any two cards. It could be interpreted in any of these ways.

So what you do is simply make the play like you would if you were tilting or steaming, but you do it with a strong hand. No need to slow play here, since most of the other players will be thinking about your last hand, they’ll mentally project that you’re tilting if that’s what they themselves do. And when you do get into such a situation, you maximize your profit by faking your steam factor. Maybe a gross overbet and you hit the flop hard and you overbet shove all-in. Looks like a tilt play, but in reality, you’re just taking advantage of the situation. In the future we’ll review more situational plays that you can use to your advantage to maximize profit at a casino online.