Your strategies to prevent yourself from tilt calls

[vanHelsing]

After a brutal run of bad cards online, I went over my biggest pots in the last 20K of hands.
I realized, that approximately 25% of my big losses in this period came from tilt calls. Hands where I refused to believe that I got Gutshot again, that my Aces got outflopped again or I talked myself into something like" this bet is too big to be a valuebet, he must be bluffing again", etc. In short, I made plays, I usually know better.

I made...
- calls, I would never advocate to do, if you show me the hand history and tell me some background.
- calls, I would never do, in phases of running normal or good.
- calls, I may have been able to avert, if it was live Poker, where it's more than just one click to blow your stack away.
- calls, I may avoid in future hands using your strategy of [your strategy here]

Now, do people use tricks like wait at least 10 secs. or walk 3 times around your chair or whatever to get yourself under control before you make a big call?
No matter how exotic, please tell me your way to handle it...

[NaobisDad]

You have just perfectly described tilt. Call call call call call...

If I ever find a way better than losing 40% of my bankroll and then not playing for a month, I'll let you know.

1. I play 2 or 3 tables at once.
2. I Listen Music.
3. I'm a winner every week or every month, not every day.

Interestingly, I looked at my PT stats and I am in the red when I call on the flop (and I am well into the green when I bet/raise on the flop).

Btw, after reading Schoomaker's article on tilt, my game has become much better.

I also recommend his other articles on Cardplayer, such as Overestimating Our Abilities and Anger Management. These articles, IMHO, are a necessary complement to any 2+2 books.

[bkholdem]

Do a search for tilt in the psychology forum.

One posters advice was: Do not act until you verbalize out loud to yourself why you are going to call. This ties your brain to your decision and reduces impulse/emotional reactions.

Alternatively, you could play naked with an elastic handy. When you make a bad call snap yourself in the balls real hard with the elastic... that should teach you too [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[vanHelsing]

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Alternatively, you could play naked with an elastic handy. When you make a bad call snap yourself in the balls real hard with the elastic... that should teach you too


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LMAO [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[yvesaint]

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You have just perfectly described tilt. Call call call call call...


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I don't know what you guys are talking about, tilt for me is raise, raise, raise.

[nWirb]

My tilt is defanitely call call call... [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[NaobisDad]

You're a lucky man. Loose raises are definately infinately better than loose calls.

That article had a banner ad next to it for Full Tilt Poker.

Gotta love the little ironies.....