The 80/20 rule in Poker

It soon becomes apparent that poker's an emotional game - 20% game, 80% emotion.

Listening to bad beat stories, all too often there's an emotional factor.

So what makes you tilt? How do you manage it?

Here's a few to get us started:
[/list][*]sex chat between players(!)[*]being a nit[*]tilting yourself with weak ass plays[*]being busted off 1st nuts by bluffs/2nd or 3rd nuts[*]being stepped on/reraised insanely every time you raise in[/list]
This poster is learning to walk away when:

- Feeling baaaaad
- Feeling the temptation to go all-in to reassert my fragile sense of self-respect
- Losing 2 stacks
- Or walking away form table after losing 40% stack at table (bad image often leads to tilt for me...)

(PS - some good podcasts on 'Cash Plays', on iTunes on managing this topic).

yes tilt is a terrible thing, but ive learned that once you master tilt, you wont lose nearly as often, and i dont agree with your numbers. i would say 80 % patience/ 20 % game.

What?!

Can't say I've ever seen that before, and I've seen lots of stuff in poker. I must be playing on the wrong sites/wrong limits.