"HELP ME" Is this Tilt?

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I have been playing quite a bit lately. I have been playing micro tourneys and .02/.05 cash. I will have the second best hand and someone will call my bets all the way to the river and go all in and in my mind i am thing what does he have? does he have the nuts or does he have me beat? Than I put him on a hand that beats me, once in a while I don't see the hand he has but it still beats me and I know in my heart he has me beat, but I tell myself I want to see what he has and convince myself that i need to see it to believe him. As you know these players rarely bluff but will call down not so good hands and will go all in with hands they shouldn't but I know they have me beat with the nuts or just a better hand than me sometimes I have the third nuts. Sometimes they get the card they need on the river and I know they have me beat.
Here is the problem I am not sure this is tilt but maybe it is some form of tilt. I know I am beat but convince myself to call to see it for myself. It is really weird to me that I would do this but I do this over and over and it has made me a losing player. So, My poker friends, "Is this tilt?"
 
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I think it is more a fish mentality than it is tilt. You will have to address it as it is a major leak. Your decisions should be made based on odds and reads you get from your opponents, not the desire to see their hands.
 
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It's tough to fold the 2nd nuts, especially when you believe a player is on the fishier side (so you perceive them as more likely to have air). I've got the same problem as you, so you're not alone in having this issue. There's definitely a tilt aspect to it, especially if you've been card dead for awhile. Yet, there's also unavoidable spots where you have such a strong hand that loses to an even stronger hand (boat over boat, etc.). I guess whether it's tilt or a cooler depends a lot on the situation!
 
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NeoBandit said:
I have been playing quite a bit lately. I have been playing micro tourneys and .02/.05 cash. I will have the second best hand and someone will call my bets all the way to the river and go all in and in my mind i am thing what does he have? does he have the nuts or does he have me beat? Than I put him on a hand that beats me, once in a while I don't see the hand he has but it still beats me and I know in my heart he has me beat, but I tell myself I want to see what he has and convince myself that i need to see it to believe him. As you know these players rarely bluff but will call down not so good hands and will go all in with hands they shouldn't but I know they have me beat with the nuts or just a better hand than me sometimes I have the third nuts. Sometimes they get the card they need on the river and I know they have me beat.
Here is the problem I am not sure this is tilt but maybe it is some form of tilt. I know I am beat but convince myself to call to see it for myself. It is really weird to me that I would do this but I do this over and over and it has made me a losing player. So, My poker friends, "Is this tilt?"
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This is not tilt, this is human curiosity... and most humans have big issues with uncertainty (it stresses them out) but when they get confirmation it settles their mind.

This build in mechanism in us is one of the reasons most people suck at poker. We're not meant to be happy with uncertainty and others having an information advantage over us.

One of my favorite coaches Alex Fitzgerald goes deeper into it in this video, hope it helps!


 
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