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tilt demons?
hey guys just had a 2hour session there and tbh I played awful and never ran that great either but I just went awol on a few tables and lost lets just say a few more buyins than I should have.
I was just wondering how often this happens to everyone, me personally every 2nd or 3rd session I just tilt so bad and affects my overall profit that I made during the week or month and feel its a big leak in my game and could be winning so much more if fixed this problem even just a little.
advice and thoughts please thanks in advance.
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not a bad idea by donk not rebuying and standing off table.
at least it would give you time to reassess things,ie;do I want to carry on playing on that table and for what another buy-in loss maybe?
I did ask back along does anyone stand down after losing 2-3 buys etc,and I got told it wasn't a good idea to do so by almost every player,but i'm not so sure myself tbh.
although I am only playing 1c/2c atm if I go more than 2 buys down I do only give myself another 1 more buy-in loss to try and win it back. the other day I went $5 down, 2&1/2 buys but managed to end session only 70c down,which was a great result as I was losing even with f/h etc.
had I gone $6 down I would have deffo stopped that session for sure.
not saying you should do exactly the same mate,but maybe give yourself a deffo stop loss limit of some sort as we all know just how easy it is to carry on playing and I deffo think we burn money when we do carry on,at least I do.
gl buddy
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Alternatively, you just need to learn to discipline yourself better.
One suggestion might be to try & look at tilt as a dreadful leak, a weakness, something to be ashamed of. For some odd reason, more & more poker players seem to get "tilted" very easily, by the smallest things & almost boast about it. It is just as important to have self-control as it is to understand position, aggression, raising & calling ranges.
One thing is certain - if you are prone to "tilt", you are leaving a LOT of money behind on the poker tables. Controlling tilt, in many ways, is more important than understanding the technicalities of poker.
You must either learn to control it, or take a break when you feel the red mist rising.
If I were you, I'd go buy that book, ir really is very good. Poker can't be much fun when you are "tilted", so it is pretty important to control.
Well done Liam - if you are prepared to make the effort, absorb that information, & act upon it, you will see & feel the benefit immediately.
Tilt is a horrendous weakness in any poker player, or even in real life, away from poker. It is controllable though, if you have the courage to face up to it.
You only need to peruse this Forum every day to see what a bad thing "tilt" is.
Good luck.
It's just the way people are. Someone who is laid back may not understand how someone can worry so much and vice versa.........I think the same can be said for tilt. Sure, people can change but it takes work, hard work. Imagine if you were one of life's quiet people and were told to liven up, basically change a massive part of your personality.....not easy at all.
I tilt on the tables, can't help it. If an oppo hits their 2outer on the river, does it annoy me?? Bigtime, but it's the way I am. I certainly won't stoop to chatbox abuse or anything like that but I have had to step away from the laptop to calm down many times before.
Personally, I think it's all too easy for people who aren't made up that way to say it is odd how people tilt.
One chap I know gets tilted by eveything in life, even THE most minor inconveniences, & I feel desperately sorry for him.
I'm on life tilt because the milkman was late this morning.
There are no sync breaks on this site, it tilts me to death
So can you imagine how he would react to a REAL bad beat in life, or poker?
I don't buy that stuff. It's intolerance, not tilt.
I hope I am not being unfair on anyone, but honestly, that is my view - "I find it odd"
I know countless poker players who have recovered from "tilt" problems by reading The Mental Game of Poker, for instance.
To be honest, I don't believe "tilt" & poker are a good blend, & those who suffer need to work at it. It can't be fun getting angry all the time during a recreational game, can it?
I was playing on here last night, & one poor chap was going absolutely loopy, because he took a beat. In OMAHA! And I so wanted to engage with him, help him grasp how poker works, so he could enjoy it more. But its not easy to chat with someone who is on raging tilt, it is like trying to have a rational convo with someone who is bladdered, it just don't work.
He'll be back today, & be in fine fettle. Until he takes a beat, then it will all kick off again. How can that be fun for him?
Anyway, yes, let us agree to disagree.
Good debate, imo.
PS - Incidentally, I am not saying I never tilt. I do, but at real life stuff, not a game.
Yes, it is one of those expressions that is used a lot in poker, & not so much in the real world, so when we use it in real life, we get some funny looks!
I think jac makes a good point about people who are playing tournaments/cash that they can't really afford being very likely to tilt.
I promise it will help. It just will.
Let us know how you get on, please.
Just imagine how many bad beats & downswings you will suffer in the next 10 years if you play, say, three tables or Tourneys per day, 7 days per week. Thousands of them. It is inevitable. Nothing - NOTHING - can change that. So it's best to try to find a way to come to terms with them, shrug your shoulders & move on to the next game.
It's all about enjoying it at our level. Solve the tilt problem, & you will.
Good luck!
try it I may help but u don't half look like a mug to people in ur house.
Glad I was not the only one.
When I began playing Online I played thousands of 9 & 10 players SNG's, in blocks of 3 or 4.
3 or 4 at a time would have the kids lolling these days, but back then, with computers & software much less developed, it was quite something to 4 table.
Playing SNG's for 12 hours at a stretch did weird things to the mind, so to aid my concentration, for each (say) 9 man SNG I had open, I would have a seperate stack of 9 chips. The 9 man SNG's played three places.
In each stack of 9 chips, 6 were red, one was blue, one was green, one was yellow.
Every time a player busted out, I'd remove one chip from "that" stack, & that way, I had an easy visual reference to how my 4 Games were going, & when they were all down to the red blue & yellows, I was really pumped up, as I was in the money in all of them. A really peculiar thing is the human mind, but ignore it's little tricks at your peril.
Did it work? You bet it did. Playing $50 & $100 SNG's on PS, I ran $200 up to $27,000 in around three months.
Impressive, huh? $27,000 in 3 months!
The kids on 2+2 call me a "lolpro", but I doubt many of them have managed that. Eat yer hearts out lads.
For the sake of balance, I should add that I then lost the whole $27,000 in less time than it took me to win it. Yup, lost the lot. Feel free to mock. Qualified lolpro.
And so that was my introduction to the Goddess we now call Variance.
Amazingly, I still see players who have not sussed Variance, or how brutal, or heavenly, it can be. When on the right side, they are the greatest players ever born, on the wrong side, well, it's rigged, 'innit?
Although it doesn't help when I get AA cracked on the bubble of an SnG and the player puts 'cya' in the chat box.....