dealing with tilt?

[warewulf]

Usually there's more trash talk at a 'friendly' home game than in a casino game. If someone realizes they can needle you and push you towards tilt, they'll do it every time.

After a bad beat, if you are shaken up, take a walk and sit out a few hands. Think about what you did. If you made a mistake, try to learn from it and DONT DO IT AGAIN.

[RackOChips]

Here's what you need to think about. You raised pre flop, got heads up with a bad player and led out on a flop of K55. I don't think there's anything wong with that. However, when a bad players says "I guess it will be an early night," and then re-raises all in red flags and alarms should sounded immediately. There's no way a bad player will make a weak statement like that while he's bluffing. Probably no way he re-raises all in with only a king, he at least has a 5. Easy muck.

I suck at spotting tells. I've been trying for many years and rarely get a glimpse of a physical movement that keys me into whether a player is bluffing or not. BUT, the one tell that easiest to spot and is 100% accurate (among new or bad players) is when someone sighs with a bit of sadness, shruggs their shoulders in disappointment, and then re-raises you. This kind of gesture CAN only mean one thing. Monster alert, buddy.

[CaptLego]

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What I'm saying is that you were already tilting if you made this play--it was a clear fold.

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Bingo. That's the way I interpreted his post in the first place. He doesn't like this guy. The guy infuriates him. He desparately wanted to beat this guy, and so he let his personal emotional state cloud his judgment so severely that he made a terrible call. He was on tilt.