What to do when the tilt does not disappear in a week?

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I was playing well a week ago. At least I kept a solid game. I had managed to build my small $ 60 bankroll in a few freeroll tournaments and was ready to continue increasing it. Then I have a bad run of 3 or 4 bad beats in a row that destroys my aces and kings and I entered a downward spiral. The best I have been able to do so far these days is not to lose too much, but I can't play well. Today I lost in the Sunday storm because of a donk but I was wrong to put everything inside. I was playing the cardschat tournament at the same time and my opponents must have thought I was crazy, because I went into a horrible tilt and started going all-in with anything. Incredibly I was lucky and won several spots, but playing very badly. The problem is that I have been there for almost a week and I can't find a solution. I read Jared Tendler's book, I took a break, I did yoga, but every time I start to play insecurity and anxiety appear and I make mistakes that sooner or later make me lose. Some time ago I opened a thread here asking what you do when you are in tilt, and now I reviewed it. But I didn't find anything there either. So, my question now is, what do you do when the tilt doesn't leave?
 
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I think at some point you have to stop thinking about poker completely. I’m having the same problem. No more poker forums for a while. I think the problem is that you played well had some bad beats or some 50:50 flips that didn’t go your way. You start getting to you. Play outside your comfortable zone to regain losses and lose more. I seen in other player and myself. Stop playing poker Just exclude yourself for a few weeks I have stopped for years and came back refreshed and energized
 
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If you are tilting for that long maybe start studying Mindfulness techniques, and even some sort of meditation and/or zen philosophy.

You learn how to live in the Now, and not think of the bad that happened in the past or fear the future.
 
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New poster here so take my info with a grain of salt. I think the best thing is to take a little time off but go to playing play money games because you don't want to feel uncomfortable playing poker and can further your game.
 
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Sometimes you can do everything right, and you still lose.
That's life.
Back to back bad beats tend to leave a sour taste, best to ether acquire a liking to sourness, or quit eating for quite some time.

try introspective hypnotherapy, with self reassurance auditory stimuli.
Helps to wash the taste away!
 
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In my opinion, the main reason for tilting is the sense of entitlement we experience when we are dealt hands we consider should be winners and turn out to be losers. For example if you go all in before the flop with KK and lose to AA you really say "that's nothing I could have done" and move on, but if you had AA and lost to KK you would feel betrayed by the Gods. What most of us have a hard time understanding is that poker is different than chess, the correct move does not guarantee by any means a win, it just increases the probability that over a long period of time if one makes that same move over and over again he will overall win more hands than if he did the exact opposite.
 
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For example if you go all in before the flop with KK and lose to AA you really say "that's nothing I could have done" and move on, but if you had AA and lost to KK you would feel betrayed by the Gods.

And if the opponent has something, he is not supposed to have, like K8 offsuit, it gets a whole lot worse, because then there is this ego thing as well. Because the opponent played so bad, we feel, we deserved to win even more. But he still had his 12% equity, and this was just one of those roughly 1 in 8 times, where he is going to win it. 12% is not zero, but we tend to emotionally feel, it should be.
 
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I don't want to sound like a jerk here but if you are tilting for over a week I don't think poker is your game. I don't think I've ever been affected that long by a tilt. I think someone that tilts that long psychologically is not ready to play poker risking their own money. My advice is to at least step away from the game for a while until you can get your head right.
 
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I was playing well a week ago. At least I kept a solid game. I had managed to build my small $ 60 bankroll in a few freeroll tournaments and was ready to continue increasing it. Then I have a bad run of 3 or 4 bad beats in a row that destroys my aces and kings and I entered a downward spiral. The best I have been able to do so far these days is not to lose too much, but I can't play well. Today I lost in the Sunday storm because of a donk but I was wrong to put everything inside. I was playing the cardschat tournament at the same time and my opponents must have thought I was crazy, because I went into a horrible tilt and started going all-in with anything. Incredibly I was lucky and won several spots, but playing very badly. The problem is that I have been there for almost a week and I can't find a solution. I read Jared Tendler's book, I took a break, I did yoga, but every time I start to play insecurity and anxiety appear and I make mistakes that sooner or later make me lose. Some time ago I opened a thread here asking what you do when you are in tilt, and now I reviewed it. But I didn't find anything there either. So, my question now is, what do you do when the tilt doesn't leave?


Take another week.

It is important that you play your game without residual emotion from the past.

Try to learn from past games - ex. you say you regret going "all-in".

And try to forget everything else regarding those hands.

Good luck !
 
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I don't want to sound like a jerk here but if you are tilting for over a week I don't think poker is your game. I don't think I've ever been affected that long by a tilt. I think someone that tilts that long psychologically is not ready to play poker risking their own money. My advice is to at least step away from the game for a while until you can get your head right.

I tend to agree. OP need to figure out, why he is feeling all this anger, when he clearly know, its not rational at all. And if a week long break is not enough to solve it, the first and obvious solution is to make it even longer.
 
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I think, reading Tandlers book on tilt is not enough. IMO you should work on tilt very seriously, before trying to concentrate on pure poker stuff.
BTW, congratulations, you have found your biggest leak, eliminate it and you'll improve your game by at least 100% :D
 
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