In cash games your winrate can be dependent on you staying away from tilt as much as you can. It's so fragile. It's even more important than actually playing bette4 than your opponents. If you are a good player but manage bad beats very poorly and tilt hard every time it happens to you, good luck is all I have to say, unless you DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
So just quit playing after every bad beat. The solution is right there for you, but I must admit executing on it can be tough. But if you can learn to do this it will increase your winrate by a lot, or make you a winning player instead of a losing player. That's just the way it is.
I have the same problem, thinking on it its hard not too depending on the situation its hard for myself to untilt after a big cooler bad beat, i always think in the back of my mind "Seems to happen to me alot" get it in good only to lose. Hard to bounce back sometimes but its not impossible theres always room for improvement on my part
A change in mindset would be of good help to those who struggle with tilt. I think in the way of math and probabilities, which helps me to deal with bad beats. For example getting it in with JJ against a fish that calls with 55, and he sucks out with the 5 on the river. I know the probability is about 18% for that to happen, but 82% of the time I will win that pot. And you should just feel good about it when that happens. You know that it will earn you so much profit in the long run that a simple bad beat won't change anything.
When people don't think about the probabilities in poker, they automatically assume that when they get AA in against KK, they will always win. But poker doesn't work like that, which would be naive to think.
So I don't get upset when a bad beat happens. So what? It's not like bad beats are going to disappear. Why call them bad beats anyway, because they are inevitable and is a part of poker. I know anyway that I earned money from an EV perspective.
I obviously dislike bad beats, but because of the good feeling I get from knowing it was a profitable play, it negates the negative feeling from the bad beat.
No one is immune from tilt. Not even the best players in the world, but they can control their tilt much better.
I would say read and learn about
expected value (EV) if you haven't already. Because then you will be able to understand exactly how much money you are expected to win in the long run for a certain situation in poker. So I often show no emotion to bad beats when they happen, but can actually sometimes smile when a fish sucks out on me, because I know he basically will just shove money my way in the long run if he keeps playing that bad.
But when you are running really bad, getting a lot of bad beats (which will happen from time to time, cause you know, we can't run good or average 100% of the time), it will be very hard to not tilt, and leaving the table is probably the best option.
But if you get upset over a single bad beat YOUR GAME WILL SUFFER A LOT from that.
Edit: I am by no means a pro at tilt control and neither am I that good at poker. But I think that the entire biggest reason that I can be a winning player at all at the microstakes is because I can handle tilt better than the average player at microstakes cash games online.