If the money didn't matter, would you tilt?

Mr. Curious · #1 10-19-2005, 04:26 PM

Are you sure?

soko · #2 10-19-2005, 04:48 PM

Maybe

Crunchii · #3 10-19-2005, 04:56 PM

Yep

jdl22 · #4 10-19-2005, 04:59 PM

Clearly yes.

One reason people tilt is simply that they feel they should be beating the game and are losing. In competitive activities such as sports or poker winning is important to a lot of people. When they don't win they get frustrated. That would still hold when the bad beats happened so people would still tilt.

Mr. Curious · #5 10-19-2005, 05:01 PM

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In competitive activities such as sports and poker, winning is important to a lot of people.

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How do most people determine if they are winning at poker?

RiverDood · #6 10-19-2005, 05:23 PM

Yes for the vast majority of humanity.

Visit the play-chip tables online if you need proof. Especially the NL games. It's seppuku city.

dibbs · #7 10-19-2005, 05:31 PM

Yea. I used to tilt in friendly play money games with friends all the time.

Money makes it worse though.

idrinkcoors · #8 10-19-2005, 06:10 PM

No way. Have you ever tilted in a freeroll? Maybe you'd tilt if you lost in a bad beat at the final table of a $500 first prize free roll, but not for play money, or money that didn't matter. You tilt because you are upset, and I don't see how you would get upset unless there was some pain involved, (i.e. losing money that meant something to you.)

#9 10-19-2005, 07:57 PM

the other day i was playing .02 .04 on stars and got heated when a guy drew out on me. when i play higher usually nothing like that bothers me.

Autocratic · #10 10-19-2005, 09:00 PM

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the other day i was playing .02 .04 on stars and got heated when a guy drew out on me. when i play higher usually nothing like that bothers me.

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Likely because at that level you feel you should be crushing the game.