[MikeNaked]

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Lastly, you mention a upswing tilt. This is great, but sounds dangerous to me. Once you've caught a few bad beats you'll define yourself as on bad tilt when it may not be so.

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Well, what I mean is, the positive emotions I am feeling now during my latest upswing has assisted my play. I am making the right play more often.

Now will this change once I start taking some bad beats? Probably not...I am properly bankrolled, I have rakeback, and I recognize they're just minor flucuations.

But as soon as I start contemplating angrily calling down the 80/8 donk w/ A high on a paired, straight flush board, something needs to happen.

I believe that, as mere humans, we can't get away from tilt; we can merely manage it. As you all pointed out, you can manage tilt by:

1) avoiding it, i.e. leaving.
2) implementing a self-management routine, a la Dov or Snowball.
3) lessening its impact - overbankrolling, rakeback, etc.