Non-emotional tilt?

[This Fish Chums]

OK, so I've gotten to the point where I almost never get so emotional that I'd consider myself on tilt. Bad beats happen and I just blow them off as variance. However, I recently caught myself and realized I was playing worse (than normal) after taking a really bad beat even though I wasn't emotionally upset. This seemed weird to me because tilt is supposed to be an emotional state and I wasn't being emotional. So how could I be effected harshly by a bad beat (well, OK, several)?
I thought about it long and hard and here's what I think happens. When a bad beat happens the mindset I had was "I should have won that hand". I wasn't emotional, but intellectually I was focused on what I "should have won". The way this was effecting my game is it lead me to thinking "I should win" other hands that maybe were marginal holdings. I was so focused on mentally running through the bad beat that it caused me to think I somehow deserved to win other hands.
I don't know if this has happened to anyone else, but I thought I'd throw it out there in case it will help someone identify a leak when the emotions aren't running high.

 

[NHequalsFU]

Tilt comes in many shapes and forms.

You can be down and start playing too tight for fear of losing more money. You can move up in stakes to try and get back the losses. Both of these are forms of tilt although you could be emotionally balanced while they are happening.

You can bet too big and lose value because you are afraid of getting outdrawn on later streets because of a hand that happened two weeks ago. You aren't thinking about it in an emotional way but it is affecting your play.

Anytime you do something different than the norm is considered tilt. Most people associate tilt with anger and rage but these subtle ways tilt works can cost you money just as quick.

 

[playinggameswithu]

That is how I tilt also. I dont break anything I just smolder in bad thoughts.

 

[Tunnelrat]

OK, so I've gotten to the point where I almost never get so emotional that I'd consider myself on tilt. Bad beats happen and I just blow them off as variance. However, I recently caught myself and realized I was playing worse (than normal) after taking a really bad beat even though I wasn't emotionally upset. This seemed weird to me because tilt is supposed to be an emotional state and I wasn't being emotional. So how could I be effected harshly by a bad beat (well, OK, several)?
I thought about it long and hard and here's what I think happens. When a bad beat happens the mindset I had was "I should have won that hand". I wasn't emotional, but intellectually I was focused on what I "should have won". The way this was effecting my game is it lead me to thinking "I should win" other hands that maybe were marginal holdings. I was so focused on mentally running through the bad beat that it caused me to think I somehow deserved to win other hands.
I don't know if this has happened to anyone else, but I thought I'd throw it out there in case it will help someone identify a leak when the emotions aren't running high.

I'm in the same boat as you when it comes to the emotional TILT. I still do feel the emotions spur up but I can kinda control it and not let it phase me too much. But I think you are on to something here, even if we feel like we are in control we might be tilting subconsciously. I've definitely have had the same thought process as you where I start thinking that I should win hands that are marginal.

You are not alone in this world of tilt my friend

 

[tauri103]

yes it is very difficult to control his emotions which covers a whole set of physical and mental behaviors, which can sometimes escape the person. And this is where he becomes the enemy of the poker player. But if a player manages to master this stress, it can become a force, an element to excel.

 

[Serjo600]

The usual situation is not right to think that you are in control, or that you now begin to carry, when you are lucky it is felt, you need to clearly understand when it happens and how successfully the conditions for this, ie stack, position, opponent and so on. If you roll a few tables, I don't think that you have any emotions if any of them you lost. The most wrong misconception in my opinion is that if you do not care about the result, you can get a very long time zero result. And it does not matter that around all play with garbage hands and they rushing at some point will be able for 3-4 hands to get the same stack just hitting the wave of good hands. It is often so put put, at some point I think that the card is not worthwhile, once again is luck, make a fold and the flop comes nuts. That is a series of successful combinations, which we jam with our usual spectrum.:bandit: