Re: I tilt I do
I'm certain I'm not telling you anything new here...
If you want to maximimze your winnings (or even win at all), you must:
1. Do a decent job of table selection
2. Try to read your opponents
3. Play the probabilities...meaning understanding and applying the concepts of outs, pot odds, effective odds, and implied odds
4. Pay close attention to pot size
5. Play within your bankroll
6. NOT TILT (i.e. control your emotions)
There are probably others, but those are the biggies.
There is skill involved in numbers 1 through 4 and you may even be able to skip #1 and #2 depending on the limits you're playing at. For #5 and #6, there really is no "skill" involved per se. #5 and #6 are simply choices, but they are choices that you MUST make.
Another way to look at it...you could do everything else right, but if you TILT, you could very easily wind up a loser. A few hands of tilting can cost you days of winnings. Why do it? Kick your cat instead!
Zen and the Art of Poker and Inside the Poker Mind are really good books for this sort of thing.
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