How to avoid tilt

You know, one thing very common in poker, is you lose the focus and tilt, priciple when you a lot of games in a roll, any tip for avoid that?

just change the type of occupation, do something useful and when you get tired again sit down for poker

Once, I for a whole week could not get into the prize zone in tournaments. I was very upset because of this. I thought I was starting to play bad, so I lose. But I played as usual. But then I got into the prize zone, and everything became good.
Sometimes you just have to play your game, not changing anything, because the changes in style can lead to even more tilt.

free rolls

just play like a million free rolls in a row where you go all in like a maniac. If you look for em you'll find 5-6 that you can probably join right away(during daylight hours) and just go all in until you get sick of it. Then go online and read about poker odds so that your angry reptile brain can kinda slow down and your logical evolved self can focus on the fact that while there is gambling in poker, poker isnt gambling. And that over time, if you play smart, you will win more than you lose. Remember the hand that you caught the bad beat (tilt hand) and figure out if you did something wrong or if it was just bad luck, if it was bad luck figure out just how lucky the guy got and reminise about a few times that you got just as lucky, if you made a mistake learn what you did so you dont repeat it. Join a game and fold any hand thats not 10s or higher for a few hours at a time using good strategy until you freakin WIN THAT SHIT YEAH BOyyyyYYYYY!!!

Your opponents, if only you will allow them, use your emotions against you. The result of an emotional game is wrong decisions and loss of money. If you fall into tilt, loss of self-control is common, and sometimes the only cure for this is a break in the game. Everything is in order, in ten minutes the game will still continue. Moreover, it will continue tomorrow.

Stay calm! Don't be sad or you will lose all of your money!

Practice humility; recognize that you cannot always win. Also, consider the variance of each game you are playing along with "risk of ruin".

WhiteWolf914 said:

You know, one thing very common in poker, is you lose the focus and tilt, priciple when you a lot of games in a roll, any tip for avoid that?

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Tilting is a frame of mind.
And as such, everyone is different, so what works for one individual may not necessary work for someone else.
It’s all about self-control and how one manages it.

Question: are you a master of your Tilt Domain, or are you a Slave to it?

WhiteWolf914 said:

You know, one thing very common in poker, is you lose the focus and tilt, priciple when you a lot of games in a roll, any tip for avoid that?

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How do you handle tilt brought on by events IRL?

for me anyone who has overcome tilt is certainly a winning player, unfortunately there is no exact recipe about how it happens , my way is to fight until I win the tilt
Rise and Rise Again Until Lambs Become Lions

I once watched Daniel Nigriand play the Sit & Go tournament, he was knocked out, he did not get to the final table. And now if I lose, then I console myself that if Nigriyan can lose, then I can lose.:dontknow:

shinedown.45 said:

How do you handle tilt brought on by events IRL?

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Tilt is a mix of emotions from anger to frustration, IRL you would maybe walk away, calm down then return to resolve the issue in a calm manner.

Did you play the hand wrong? Did your opponent just get lucky?

All you can do is fix any holes you may have in your game and accept that there are bad players out there and move on.

You just need to get that there is a lot of variance and sometimes you win sometimes you losse, i do get upset or tilt rarely but never change my style of playing

Riding out the Tilt

When I'm on tilt and I recognize it what I do is completely shut down my game. I will fold pretty much every hand, only playing TT or better or AQ or better and if I don't catch those hands I won't play the hand. I do this for about 5+ orbits to calm myself down. Then, when I acknowledge I am calm again, i go back to my normal style of play. Basically, to ride out the tilt I become a nit.

JonathanAReth said:

When I'm on tilt and I recognize it what I do is completely shut down my game. I will fold pretty much every hand, only playing TT or better or AQ or better and if I don't catch those hands I won't play the hand. I do this for about 5+ orbits to calm myself down. Then, when I acknowledge I am calm again, i go back to my normal style of play. Basically, to ride out the tilt I become a nit.

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Agree. Or if I bust out of tournoment i play few 0.25 spin n go like a donk to calm myself down

Tilt is our biggest opponent Poker players usually lose money with tilt, not other players... This is very hard but the most important to beat him and have steel mind

Decide your move and play it. Don't get upset after.

Deciding to play the best move is even better. We usually tilt when we get bad beat...why do we get bad beat? We get bad beat when someone sucks out on us. They 'shouldn't have won' and 'got lucky'.

This means that you made them sweat, you made the best decision. In the long run, that descision will show a profit.

We all get caught up in results and money. Do not fall foul of this and you can walk off from each bad beat knowing you played well. Embrace those bad beats knowing you played it perfect!

Regonise that tilt could cost you more in the long run. Tilt leaves a residue too. So let's say you quit after almost going on tilt. You calm down and complete forget about that bad beat a few hours later. Once you come back you have a slightly lower threshold because of that last bad beat and when the situations pops up again, (say AA and it gets beat), you tilt again quicker.

That's probably a little confusing and explained badly but listen or read to The Menal Game of Poker. It's a very good read/listen to help with underlying issues of tilt.