Eat ice cream instead.
Nah, I think they're nailing it here. The outcome of any particular hand is irrelevant. So you got it all in with AA and some jackazz called you with 23s (hey! Sooted cunnectorz!) and you lost. So what. You're going to play that preflop AA thousands of times. On average, you'll make money on the hand.
You probably understand you shouldn't get angry, you just have to internalize it enough that you really don't get angry. There's no question some idiot is going to suck out on you, just when. Just let it flow on by, one hand amidst thousands, knowing you made the +EV play, and HOPE people keep putting themselves in positions where they have to suck out.
Stop getting angry about things that shouldn't anger you and your question takes care of itself.
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desk not hit back.....sounds like you need some zoloft...or maybe some bong hits of some killer pot
YEah Drugs solve all problems And people wonder whats wrong with the world
I think is not a poker player who didin't get ungry , and lose his money quicly or some of them. It is a bad thing when you have just get a bad beat and you are angry. yesterday I lose my 320$ on my acount in Carbon poker and I faled terible.
I was uninstaling the carbon poker software...but in 2 hours I instaled again and I played bad. This is poker.. sometime we lose
Tough question. What i do is put on mozart or greatful dead while i play. this almost puts me to sleep because im so calm. Then i play at stakes where if I lost i wouldn't care. This is hard because you don't want to play at such low stakes that you find each hand to be a joke and you dont want to play at stakes that cause you to become violent.
Google for self hypnosis or read PsychoCybernetics by Maxwell Maltz.
IveGot0uts's post about a classically conditioned response, is great. In simpler terms, you've developed a (bad) habit, that you need to replace with something else. Smiling / laughing would be the healthiest one
Sorry I must disagree here, if you have it under control and don't let it get to you WHY do you pound the desk. It sounds like you almost have it under control, you just have to let it go it is pointless pounding the desk. One day you will cost yourself $$$$ by pounding, one day you will pound something accidentally and you will break it.Yikes. People are misunderstanding my thread. I pound my desk to get rid of tilt and move on. I know bad beats are part of the game. I play within my bankroll and I move on. I pound it when someone who played their hand VERY horribly got rewarded. Just for a second after bad beat is pulled, I pound my desk hard, and then relax and move on. I'm a veteran to bad beats and I do not let it get to me. My part that I need to fix is being able to relax and move on WITHOUT pounding. I can only relax and move on by pounding since it releases the anger.
Sorry I must disagree here, if you have it under control and don't let it get to you WHY do you pound the desk. It sounds like you almost have it under control, you just have to let it go it is pointless pounding the desk. One day you will cost yourself $$$$ by pounding, one day you will pound something accidentally and you will break it.
. Many wonderful advices here, such as getting a punching bag near my computer while having a stress ball on my desk. ......
It's very sturdy and it's invincible against my pounds.
Hire a homeless person and pound them instead of the desk, and if thats no good then IMHO chocolate Ice Cream will work best.
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well two things spring to mind.
1. You pound the desk after getting a bad beat and this releases stress and you immediately feel calm. Is it a problem that really needs fixing? Buying a stronger desk would seem the simplest solution.
2. You do not bang the table when playing live, why? What is so different? When you play live and do not bang the table, do you relax? If so its learned behaviour, you have started a habit of banging the table when playing online.. so stop it!!
If on the other hand you do not bang the table live but do not realx as well then tilt is something you need to learn more about. Clearly the act of banging something is a part of your anti-tilt mechanism and this needs to be addressed because it is something you cannot do live and therefore not being able to hit something is impacting on your live game.
So its one or the other, hitting something is a stress releaver to you, in which case you need to work on other means of reducing stress to fix your live game, or if you can relax playing live without hitting something then its purely learned behaviour and you could therefore learn not to do it.
Maybe instead of a swear jar you could have a thump jar, or every time you hit the desk transfer $1 to me.. you would soon lear not to do it if its simply learned behaviour.