This is a very serious subject mate, and should be trated with all care and respect.
If you know that you are tilted and you continue playing "trying to recover", you should stop playing poker, immediately, and I mean it: stay at least one week out of the tables, don't even think about poker or go to the forum: release your mind from the tension and self-oppression, this is the cause of death for a poker player.
Well, this is the problem of fast bankroll management: it will lead to tilt whether you like it or not because the emotion of grinding up fast is very high.
With so high adrenalise as this, with you moving from $ 50 to $ 400, it is never strange to me that you have tilted after losing a couple of buy-ins.
First thing, when you realize you are losing too much at one particular stake, move one level down, always, forget about pride, forget about your goals, we must have mental health above all, and if we keep losing fast, we are going down anyway, and sometimes it would be much harder to build another bankroll so fast, specially if you have a tilt as lose 10 buy-ins or more in one single session of one, two hours for example.
There is nothing to be recovered, poker is game of variance, and sometimes we are going to lose a lot in sequence, and we must be prepared for that: if we are playing fine and losing, okay this is variance.
If we are not playing fine, we are going to lose always, and this is not variance, this is psychological control, which is the soul, the core, everything of the
poker game revolves around having a very solid emotional basis, to support all of the hard situations we are going to put ourselves in.
For the way you speak it doesn't look you have played too much in your life. The variance at SNGs and MTTs is preposterous compared to the variance of the Cash Games, even Zooom.
So if you believe that your variance is too high it is because you haven't played yet one million hands in your life. Do not worry, in one million hands a lot of things can happen:
For example, even a player with a winrate of 3 BB / 100 at 100 NLHE, can/might lose for a sequence of 1 million hands, and we know that 99% of players that are making 3 BB / 100 at 100 NLHE are not the Nanonokos, but they are being profitable enough, perhaps even to live playing poker.
Consider this, of course this would happen only in 1 out of 500 players, but it is possible and sure there is this unlucky player that stays 1 millions hands having a cash downswing: can you sustain this pressure?
Yep, stay out of the tables, clear your mind and when you return, come thinking mostly about bankroll management, which is the soul key for a clear mind as the master Evan Jarvis always says on its videos.
Regards;
Carlos 'Aballinamion' Barbosa
