Going on Tilt

Hi guys, i play now for 3 years poker online and live . Sometimes I'm winning, sometimes or often I'm loosing.
When I'm winning it's all okay but when I loose I go very fast on Tilt.
I think it's the main reason why I loose.

Could you give me your advices to control yourself . Because I think a part of poker is control his emotion too.
Thanks for eac reply.

Better be patience. At the past, I'm aggressive whenever I get myself lose, and because of that, I'm losing my concentration and get beaten very fast.
So even if you lost the hand and even get a short stack, don't force yourself getting it back immediately.

Play for points only until you can control tilt. Practice, practice, practice.

I think every one occasionally goes on tilt, but I guess we can call it a leak in your game if you are consistently going on tilt.

I know it is not a very popular book around here, but the book Zen and the Art of Poker by Larry W. Phillips. really helped me in the beginning with tilt issues.

It took me a long time to learn how to control myself from going on tilt. When I lose a big hand, I say to myself "Don't be stupid" and it usually works. I try not to play games that are over my bankroll and would make me angry if I lose.

Maybe this method might help you control yourself from going on tilt aswell.

good evening,
my name is donkus maximus and i am a tiltaholic. i just came thorugh the worst period of tilt in my admittedly short poker life. First it was bad beats and this led to bad play, especially chasing draws when i did not have the odds. One way I got over it was to take a break for a day, write out the poker rules that I follow and I put them beside the computer. They were always there to stop me doing dumb things. This simplified my game and got be back to the basics of what made me win to begin with: playing good cards from position and always knowing the odds. This did not make me win immediately as I still got unlucky, but it reduced my losses and kept me from being dumb. The break came earlier today- I made up all my losses for the week and was up 9.21 BB/100 hands.
So my advice is to stop for a while and remember what it was that made you a winning player.

Agree, patience is where it's at. I've also found if there isn't time for me to play, real time, I go on TILT and I'll usually make bad decisions and lose then. Better luck to everyone at the tables and of course, more time to play!

When you start playing,tell yourself you are only going to play the very best cards.So catch yourself after a loss and dont throw chips right back in,unless its AA or KK.This way you keep yourself in check.Dont get sucked into the tilt trap.

I had to add this,What makes the Pros better than most is not how much you can win,but how much you can lose......meaning,can you lose $50,000 in one hand,and not even show?Just congratulate the guy and keep playing,without being tilted...the pros do this daily.

I hear you man. I take a bad beat and my jaw clenches without me realizing it until it is fifteen minutes too late! lol

What I have been doing is, if I take a bad beat or suckout or w/e, I take deep breathe close my eyes and shake it off. Sounds stupid yes (wouldn't do this live, would walk away and do it) BUT, for me, i start doing bad when i tense up. I like to be loose and comfortable and clear headed.

So, just shake it off, because you can't and arn't going to win every single pot your involved in. So when you are ready sit back down and start playing smart solid poker again. GL.

I'm having trouble with this right now. Best thing to do if you're on tilt is to take a break and not play poker for several weeks. I recently took a really brutal back to back bad beats in one day, within 2 hours, 3 weeks ago. Go to this site to check out my bad beats. Right now, I'm taking a huge break from poker.
Please help me control my bad beat!!!!

Like lot of people say, when you're on tilt, GET OUT of the table or take a break. No matter how professional and solid you play, if you're on tilt, you won't win. After one re-buy and losing, I just left. I still have over 14k bankroll. But honestly, taking a break is the best thing to do. I still can't forget my beats. Going back to that casino makes me want to puke or burn that casino down. When I feel better, I'm going to different casino. After that, when things get better, I'll go back to continuing 5/10 where I usually play.

lets sayyour 80% favored to win the hand.. you push all in and get called and he hits his 5 outer with 2 cards to come.... your upset not sure waht to do... main thing is calm down you made the right move dont second guess yourself thinking if you couldve played it different... you got your chips in while you were 80% favored... keep playing like that and you win more than you lose... if you get sucked out on twice in the same game or in games back to back(thats what puts me on tilt) when i lose 90% and 95% hands in back to back games.... when that happends i know im on tilt i know i not thinking right and just need to quit playing.. i know i cant play again until i forget about what happend and move on

I think that's the best thing to do . Sometimes if I'm not playing for some weeks , and I play poker again I play very great and then day after day I get worst , and go more on tilt. I don't know if it's the same for someone else.

It's important to view poker as a a long term game. Any person can any given game, but skill will show through in the long run and the player who keeps his cool and consistently makes correct decisions every game will be the one who comes out ahead.

I play on Full Tilt, and when I feel like i'm starting to tilt a bit I just stop playing for a while.
I know that I'll lose more if I keep on playing.
Sometimes I'll even stop playing for a couple of days.

haha i loved the start of this post.

it helps if ya let the hand go and if ya need to get up walk away before making a mistake.this works i promise

Have to agree with pretty much everything that's been said here. Playing cash games its easy to just stop and take a break to calm yourself down, but when you're playing a tournament and the bad beat that puts you on tilt has just cost you half your stack or more that's when controlling your blinding rage is most important. And thats also where I've failed miserably in some huge tournaments I made it into...

The most memorable one was a freeroll qualifier for the APPT Manila on pokerstars. I had already made it through the first round and was on the final table of the qualifier itself 3rd in chips. I picked up JJ in late pos and raised the limped pot about 4BB and 2 called. I spiked my set on the flop but it was a drawy board and even though I went all in I get called by 89 suited (guy in the big blind so I'm not so mad that he called preflop) he hits his gutshot straight and leaves me with only 15 BB in my stack. Next hand 99.. 2 over cards on the flop but I'm pissed off so I go all in. Called by TPTK and lose. Game over.

I was devastated, I had been playing the qualifiers for this tournament since they started and got thru to the final on my 4th or 5th try and threw away my shot at winning the seat on one stupid decision because I let anger cloud my judgement.

I think I'm a little better at controlling that anger now... just as long as I'm not playing drunk, then I'm permanently on tilt even when I'm winning

When I'm on tilt I like to just stop and take a break for a while. All too often after a bad beat, my play just becomes a mess and I end up losing even more money.

Lessening the effect of tilt is primarily a matter of self-discipline. Advice like being patient comes down to that. How can you be patient except through self-discipline?

The first step is recognition - not of when you are already full-blown tilting, but of when you are either more likely to, or when you're starting. In either case, you're not in the best mood to play, especially not to play your A game, and you should stop, take a break or not start playing as the case may be. Of course, that's not always possible, such as when you're still in a tournament, but you can unregister from the ones that are starting soon.

It's amazing what consecutive bad beats can do to you. I was frustrated last night and pretty much lost a bunch more, after seeing runner runner bad beats and straight draws. Next time, I will take a long break before I waste any more money

Slow it up. Other players might get annoyed with you but you are there to win and there is nothing against the rules in taking it slow. You are allocated a time before you go on the clock. Use it.

Tilt




Slow down.

Get your head back into the game.

Big mistake I see a lot of players make is they try to quickly make up for the bad beat.
Playing to aggressive and pushing All in in the next few hands.
Slow Down ........


Prevent TILT:
Close your eyes / Take a deap breath / Exhale.
Get your head back into the game.
Acknowledge it.
Let it go.
Focus.




Good Luck

get out for a few hands if not half an hour. you want to clear your mind of everything and to get you back in the right mindset for poker

I would have to go with walking away until you can think poker If I had suffered a badbeat.
But would move onto the next game If the huge loss I suffered was completely due to my own dumb decisions.

Well the best way i found to control my tilt is by taking my self off the PC or out the casino. Go for a walk for a few minutes and think about what went wrong!!

If you live with your friends/partners etc... I make sure there know I'm on tilt so my partner keeps me off the PC lol!!

But i found having a walk and thinking it all though is the best method i have found.

Or even writing it down so you have it on record!!

Thats funny but true ......





Whatever U do:

Remain COOL

After lost a lot of chips, dont try to get them back immediatelly especially not with a low pair in hands. Lot of players say allin after losing big...and usually they drop out in no time.
Its very hard to be patient after losing but if someone cant control it, its better for him to give up playing poker.

i don't have as much experience in poker as i do in playing on football and horses. its the same everywhere though. every football season (and i think i play pretty conservative with my br) i have 2 nightmare weekends in a row, and usually another wildcard nightmare weekend somewhere mixed in there. and i usually can't go a week with horses where my br doesn't take a booboo on one day. a couple ppl brought it up all ready that you absolutely cannot get it in your mind that "hey, dammit! i'm a winner, i usually win and i usually do awesome! i need to make up for this loss right here and right now!" because you're gonna catch you a spankin. for instance, by the first kickoff, sometimes even well before, for football, i have my bets locked in, and that's it, there will be no more betting. if my biggest bet of the day is a noon college game, and god forbid i'm incredibly wrong and i lose, then a moderate bet that also was at noon loses...and i realize i've just earned myself a losing day even if the other 2 or 3 bets win...fine, i'm done betting. not going to bother to try to find an over/under somewhere and try to double down, cause i'll lose and it's gonna ruin my saturday, and probably weekend knowing the nfl isn't going to bail me out.

gotta stick to the strategy you agreed with yourself you'd play. the killer of poker i've noticed is that it's not *just* you slappin your forehead and cussin yourself when you get burned...there *may* be some bastard who just got you talking smack, calling you a hick, pointing and laughing about what a moron you are, even when you knew you did the right thing and just lost. it's easy to make things personal, and you really want that dude's connection to drop and get blinded out till he comes back with as low a chipstack as you. and you also want to get him back. screw it though, most the ppl who talk trash are generally having the luckiest day of their life and suck. and just try to forget their handle...find a table they're not playing at. nothing wrong with taking a break i guess but that's never been my style. i can forget about it quick, just know i can't correct it right away.

i guess because of betting football (especially) for quite a while, i've broken the concept of "poker" into "seasons" like quarterly; so it never seems like a rush to make up for a nasty day/week, or a bad month. so if i break even over a "season"...cool, nothing wrong with that at all...make a few bucks, lose a few bucks, its fine. you have to remember why you're doing it in the first place; because you're a bettin' son of a gun and you think its fun. and if you've been at it for a little while, you're probably all right

Patience IMO is one of the best methods for tilting I have found.
I used to tilt and blow my bankroll rather rapidly.
Now if I get a spanking on a hand or a couple hands in a row,I will just get up and leave the table for a round or two.
Walk outside,smoke a cigarette,whatever just get my mind off the game for a round or two.

I mean sometime you just get bad beats. There is luck involved in poker, and because of that the hand can change in an instant, from losing to winning or vice versa. You just gotta shake it off and step away if you need to. God probably doesn't hate you.(lol jk. i know he loves you!) Maybe you should do some nice things for some people? What goes around comes around, ya know! I seem to get good things when i give good things. Well good luck, and when you decide to play again, I'm sure you be on the bettee side of the stick!