A subject covered extensively - Tilting - Page 3

mason55 · #21 10-21-2005, 02:00 AM

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I don't think that means you can't get mad about donks who call pre-flop rasies of 10+BB OOP with 97o against your big pocket pair and hit running 9's.

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How can a winning player possibly say this?

JaBlue · #22 10-21-2005, 02:09 AM

I get angry if I judge a player incorrectly. For example, I correctly judge my opponent to have QQ with ace and king on board and the pot was 200$ on the river and we both had 200$ behind. I pushed all in and he made a miraculous call. This hand set me on tilt more than any bad beat ever could have.

I am playing on like 8 or 9 buy ins right now and losing 1 or 2 to a bad beat doesn't phase me.

I tilt when I recognize my own play is getting bad. Then I play worse and worse and worse. A stop loss seems like it would do the trick for me but I can't often adhere to it because the games are sometimes just too good to shy from - that is, I still think I have a very high expectation when I'm playing suboptimally.

jzpiano14 · #23 10-21-2005, 02:11 AM

Tilt sucks, I did tilt away a couple of buyins today when I got sucked out on by 23s twice today both all in preflop aginst AA and AK, but things got better after I took a break and made a couple grand [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

FreakDaddy · #24 10-21-2005, 02:12 AM

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I don't think that means you can't get mad about donks who call pre-flop rasies of 10+BB OOP with 97o against your big pocket pair and hit running 9's.

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How can a winning player possibly say this?

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Obviously I know that in the long run, that's how I win. It just burns at the time. I smack my monitor, kick my pregnant cat, and get over it. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

mason55 · #25 10-21-2005, 02:13 AM

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kick my pregnant cat

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Awesome. That's the only thing cats are good for. I have my cat's bed next to my computer so I can kick him when things aren't going well.

jzpiano14 · #26 10-21-2005, 02:17 AM

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I start to doubt myself and change my game for the worse (way less aggression, not trusting my reads). Even though I know I'm a winning player I have trouble not doing it.

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I get that feeling a lot and it is one I don't like. Not being able to trust yourself at a poker table is about the worst thing, IMO, easy way to hit a tilt button

FreakDaddy · #27 10-21-2005, 02:20 AM

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kick my pregnant cat

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Awesome. That's the only thing cats are good for. I have my cat's bed next to my computer so I can kick him when things aren't going well.

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[img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] Joking of course, I don't own a cat.

P.S. Don't abuse your pussy.

uncleshady · #28 10-21-2005, 03:37 AM

I dont tilt from being beat. This happens. Ive lost to quads 5 times in 5 days and I wasnt tilting. What does piss me off is when I fold a winner. Dumping pocket 3's because nobody is in the pot and the board is AJ3. Lost opportunities bug me. When I do get tilty, I play a 2 dollar MTT or something. Keep me busy for a few hours and the worst I lose is two more dollars.

JaBlue · #29 10-21-2005, 03:47 AM

I should mention that another good stress relief is to [censored] around with X dollars and expect to lose it, of course depending on what you're comfortable with X being.

Buy into a 5$ SNG and push every hand.

Play some small stakes limit and cap every street.

have a blast

gunslingner · #30 10-21-2005, 04:10 AM

When you feel you are not making the right decisions - stand up and don't play for a couple of hours.

It's hard, I know, but it's the only way.