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We say that a player is "tilt" when he loses his head and starts making mistakes and playing well below his best?

There are countless reasons that can leave someone "tilted". The most common is the "bad beat", that situation where you are mathematically favorite and your opponent hits a saving card to make a game better than yours.

Today, with several years of experience, I am proud of my tilt control. Nobody is perfect, of course, but it's almost impossible for me to lose my mind playing poker
 
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I think tilt is really one of those things that affects everyone. And the players who can control their tilt better will be on average better overall players. I think a lot of overcoming tilt is understanding that sometimes good hands lose, and othertimes you will be beat the odds and win with a worse hand.

In my opinion tilt is easiest to beat when you are calm, and can laugh about getting beaten - think "oh wow, look at the slim chances of that happening, that's amazing that it happened!".
 
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Hi.
I think player discipline is the basis for controlling emotions. If you are disciplined, the tilt does not threaten you.
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I think tilt control comes with time and experience. I'm sure you guys used to tilt just like I used to. But over time, after taking horrible beats in critical spots of big tournaments, you sort of become desensitized. Once you've taken that horrible beat in a wsop qualifier final a couple spots from winning a $15K prize package, the next time you take a beat in $5 freezeout you just shrug it off. And when I say a couple of spots from winning a $10K seat and a $5K travel allowance, I'm not talking about being short stacked to the point where somebody can justify calling my all-in or anything like that. I talking about being 2nd in chips behind a chip leader that just barely has me covered and the guy makes an all-in bluff with air against my top two pair before hitting running cards to back door a straight. Taking that pot down would have given me a 10 to 1 chip advantage over the next closest stack. I would have had a 20 to 1 advantage over the next stack behind him. When that guy turned over his bluff I started mentally packing my bags. The guy was actually congratulating me and wishing me luck in Vegas in the chat box as the board ran out. Since that beat nothing fazes me anymore. I've seen so many unbelievable runouts that nothing surprises me now. It's like "I've seen that happen before. That's nothing, though. Let me tell you about this one time I was playing for a WSOP seat..."
 
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good morning, how are you? indeed, I agree with you! always when I'm playing more calmly and with a higher rating on the hands I play, I have better results.
 
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good morning, how are you? surely keep calm and the first step, the results have seen consequences.
 
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good morning, how are you? man what a fantastic story, very good to hear that kind of experience of players with a lot of luggage, thank you very much!
 
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Hi!! I don’t pay attention to this for a long time, I think that this is part of the game. We must be very persistent in such situations if we want to show a good game, and use it against other players.
 
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We say that a player is "tilt" when he loses his head and starts making mistakes and playing well below his best?

There are countless reasons that can leave someone "tilted". The most common is the "bad beat", that situation where you are mathematically favorite and your opponent hits a saving card to make a game better than yours.

Today, with several years of experience, I am proud of my tilt control. Nobody is perfect, of course, but it's almost impossible for me to lose my mind playing poker


Tilt takes different forms and continues to evolve right along with your own game. Tilt is necessary for calmness to exist. Without tilt, there would be no "non tilt."

So...remember to monitor your own tilt so you can identify it's form early, before it costs you too much.

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We say that a player is "tilt" when he loses his head and starts making mistakes and playing well below his best?

There are countless reasons that can leave someone "tilted". The most common is the "bad beat", that situation where you are mathematically favorite and your opponent hits a saving card to make a game better than yours.

Today, with several years of experience, I am proud of my tilt control. Nobody is perfect, of course, but it's almost impossible for me to lose my mind playing poker


My patented anti tilt method is simple. Join a freeroll, and go all in every hand. If you lose, who cares. But if you win, especially by screwing people over, pretty soon you are laughing as your 93 beats someone's aces, and then your tilt is gone.
 
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started, I had difficulty dealing with this control!

Today with more experience, I understand what is part of the game!
 
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