Tilt. How to deal?

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When you lose unexpectedly distribution (flush against straight flush), or move to trash like to settle down? I understand that I will play, but after a start to do silly things? I lost $ 10 for half an hour in the zoom.
 

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30 views and no one answered. It's a shame.
 
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There is no cure for tilt except for experience and understanding that due to the many hands you will be playing, you are bound to experience bad beats. Try not to think of it as a bad beat and only focus on how you played the hand and if there was anything you could of done differently. If you played the hand right, then the outcome was out of your control, therefore you just need to realize this and move onto the next hand like nothing happened because that won't be your last bad beat and there will be many more. Grasp that concept now, or you will be doomed for many many more hands.
 
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In my short 5 year experience of poker, ive noticed 2 key things. When people are winning they are greedy to win some more. When people are losing they desperately try to earn it back, some people who cant accept defeat or losses play higher stakes to earn losses back. Its very easy to get sucked in and suffer losses on such tilt outbreaks. Its dangerous, so be safe when you are about to tilt. Keep a stop loss in poker, dont end up like Gus hansen with his $20 million downswing.
 
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In my short 5 year experience of poker, ive noticed 2 key things. When people are winning they are greedy to win some more. When people are losing they desperately try to earn it back, some people who cant accept defeat or losses play higher stakes to earn losses back. Its very easy to get sucked in and suffer losses on such tilt outbreaks. Its dangerous, so be safe when you are about to tilt. Keep a stop loss in poker, dont end up like Gus hansen with his $20 million downswing.

m yes. That is, you need to stop? When you notice that you lose.
 
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After enough play, any loss of patience is a tilt. Many folks tie it into feelings of anger or throwing a fit, but the more you play, the less you are emotionally overcome.

Tournament tilt is the most dangerous, as sitting out isn't always an option. If I'm nearly felted and able to get my stack back up, I have trouble not getting involved in expensive hands and tightening my range back down.

Today coming back from 10 BB I had one bad shove call with KQ (vs A10), and 3 bet all-in with an open straight draw (vs a set). There was no rage or tantrum, but as I look back on it, I was absolutely tilting.

Eventually I need to recognize the signs of tilt within my own play, and learn how to reset and retighten.
 
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The best advice I have learned about tilt is on youtube. Check out gripsed, and Evan explaining how to never go on tilt again. He breaks down the psychology of why people actually go on tilt. Great watch.
 
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Set winning limits, and set loss limits. Lots of people disagree with this, and some pros too. The motto on the professional world (at least from what I read in "SuperSystem") is: if the game is good, stay, regardless of whether you are winning or losing.

But I tend to think beginners like me don't yet have the mental capacity that they have, after being sucked out on tons of hands, to simply hold tilt off and play as usual. Basically, for us, when something goes wrong, even if the game was perfectly awesome otherwise, it goes down the drain.

So, first recommendation is setting good winning or losing values. For example, for a 1-hour session, you can say "I want to win $5" or "I don't want to lose any more than 2BIs". Then, once you win $5 or you you lose 2 BIs, you jump out of the table. If you keep playing, you're magnifying the tilt effect.
For example, just 30 minutes I was playing NL2 and had a $8 stack, the biggest I have ever had in NL2 (and I was going against my own advice here since I usually quit at $5, but lets ignore that for now :p). Suddenly I get TT in a AT8 flop. Awesome. I couldn't have asked for more. At this moment there are 2 people in the hand, me, and a reg player with a $10 stack. I make a huge bet, he calls. Turn comes J. We both shove. I ended up winning (he had AJ) and left the table right after, but imagine how he felt, winning 5x the maximum buy-in and then losing it all like this. I kept finding him multiple times afterwards (we were in Rush Poker), and every time I saw him he had a smaller stack.
It hurts pretty bad to have that much stack and losing it, but that's because he couldn't quit while he was ahead. Same thing happens when you're behind. If you already lost 2-3 BIs, you're only magnifying the tilt by keep playing. Then you'll beat yourself over "Damn, I could have only lost 2 BIs, now I lost 5!!! Why am I so [insert self-pity insult]?!?!".

Second recommendation is taking a break. Every time you have a bad beat or a cooler. Take a small break and do something physical for 30 minutes-1 hour. I'd recommend a full body workout or a jog. Then, when you come back, and you're still thinking about that hand, call it a day or two, and on those 2 days don't think about poker at all. Better yet, do think about poker and read theory. When you're on tilt is the best time to think "Damn, I'll show these fishes. I'm really gonna get them now. Let me just get my theory straight and when it's my time to shine, I'll crush them into dust".

Final tip, once you think your tilt has gone away review hand history. Post the hand that made you tilt here on the forums. We'll see if it was really luck or if you could have played better. Maybe you chased a draw with bad odds? Or maybe you didn't bet and gave your opponent a cheap way to beat you? There are plenty of people here able to give you those answers.

That's it.
Good luck at the tables :)
 
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You have to accept bad beats as part of the game. As for the tilt , if you notice that your game is being influenced by it , stop playing for a while and come back when recovered
 
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ilostmysoul,Thank you. Well all I explained. I will write to the account of the loss. Tilt or failure. Good luck to you.
 
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Stop playing, at least for 10 minutes if in a tournament, if in the cache it for a couple of hours.
 
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For me it works to just back out when I'm on tilt. If the tilt is hard, maybe for a few days actually. :) Come back with a positive vibe.
 
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bad beats They happen all the time in poker and I think the best way to handle this is forgetting them making a long-term right game the result vem.Ha and bads are just a docaminho nominate stone that we have to remove them
 
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30 views and no one answered. It's a shame.

looool be patient mate :D


try to think in the long therm... bad beats are part of the game soo.. get ready :)
cheers! :)


PD: Do not make the same mistakes several times. ;)
 
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