It seems the more I try to play good the more tilty I just become so I start playing like a maniac instead and lose most of my money until my senses just come back to me and all that negative energy washes away.. Thats the only reason people go on tilt is stored up negative energy.. Trying to play good isn't gonna do the trick, your good play will still result in bad beats indefinetly, and you'll get even more frustrated.. You need to let out that negative energy... Thats just my 2 cents...

Yesterday I watched FAME by Ricky Gervais and then RAW by Eddie Murphy. Fixed me right up.

I was just thinking about this today. My theory is to take these steps.

First I do try my hardest to self trigger on my current mind-states. I look for tells I'm exhibiting that show me I'm Rushing, frustrated, fatigued and if possible complacency.

Next I will adjust accordingly.
If I'm on tilt it's likely i'm exhibiting more than one mindstate in which case I take a long break. The more mindstates the more likely I'm to make mistakes.

If i'm only exhibiting one of the mindstates I will sometimes adjust my game accordingly because my opponents will likely misinterpret my mind-state. For example, I may not be frustrated but am starting to rush things. I will slow down my pace and maybe pretend to be frustrated.... IMO there's no better way to get off tilt than to pretend you're tilting worse than you are and fool your opponents.

Once I've adjusted... it's time to stop thinking about what put me on tilt and evaluate table conditions and opponents. Start thinking into the future and try to get one level ahead of your opponent.

Let me know if you have any questions.

take the rest of the day off. i never tilt the next day.

The most common cause of tilting is unrealistic expectations, not bad beats. Everyone gets bad beats, they're part of the game. Good players reanalyze their play to make sure there were no mistakes, and plan how to use the hand to get more money back. Bad players try to get the money back the next hand.

Good play produces average profits with a lot of fluctuation. You don't see a casino owner crying if someone hits a big bet on red at roulette. He knows that people will make thousands of bets, and he'll win something close to his mathematical percentage. He's the first guy to congratulate the winner, and he's thinking of ways to be sure the winner stays in the casino to lose the money back, and to use the win to encourage other people to bet more.

What would you think of a casino owner who berated winners, then raised the limit on the roulette wheel and started offering better odds to attract bigger betting, trying to win back every loss? You'd tell him to find another business.

Tilting costs money, of course, but there is a bigger long-term cost as well. Instead of making your losses productive, like the casino owner, you're throwing them away. And it's all because something inside of you thinks you should win every hand, or at least every session.

If you can't get used to the idea of good play paying off in the long run and individual ups and downs are things to be exploited, not things to get emotional about, I think you should find another game. A guy with unrealistic expectations who has somehow learned not to tilt is still a bad poker player.

Discipline.

You need to change your mindset and redefine what constitutes success. If bad beats set you off your focusing on results instead of how well you actually played the hand. Realize too that poker is all about getting your money in good. After that you have no control of the outcome. If you consistently get your money in good you will win. You will also suffer your fair share of bad beats. Odds dictate it.

Think of it like this. If I could guarantee you that everytime you put all your chips in the middle you'd be the favorite, you'd probably jump at it. However, you would also suffer more bad beats than anybody on the planet. I think that even you would agree though that you would accept these terms as you would be a tremendously winning player. Again, odds dictate it.

Until you can change how you look at success on the poker table you will likely always have tilt issues. Focus on whether or not the money went in good, not the bottom line or actual outcome of the hand.

* I cook. And I mean I *cook*
* I do manual labor or excercise
* I buy something. More often than not a nice bottle of scotch

I have strict stop-loss boundaries so once I meet one of those I'm done for the day. Then if I feel like crap I do one of the above.

What do you use as a stop-loss? 2 buy-ins? 4? Busto?

While I don't put a cap on wins I would say "know know your limit play within it". Psychologically speaking, once you lose, your stop loss strategy may be helping you to win more money when your tough and lose less money when you're weak. I think stop-loss strategy can provide an edge to the tilting. But it shouldn't be a factor for a player who knows how to deal with loss and not go on tilt.

I don't know too many people with such ice-cold blood that they don't play worse when they've lost 50bb in a session than if they haven't. It can be very subtle.

It can also be an indication that you're just flat out getting beat, whether it's because your opponents are better than you, you're playing your B or C game, or whatever.

Also, a winning image provokes people to play more weakly against you. A losing image, esp if you're folding a lot, makes people take more stabs at you.

Tilting...wow...it comes in so many forms...and it has so many triggers.
Ive done alot to prevent it...but there is something i will never be able to win from.
Its when im playing like 12 tables or so...and all my reads are off...my 3bets get 4bet, and bluffs get snapped...like all this within the same minute.
When you play alot of tables you expose yourself to multiple beats in a short period of time...im not sure if anybody fixed this?

Since ive done alot against tilting...i am not even sure it can be fixed in certain spots.
The most important issue will be that you are aware you are going to be tilting like soon...and act accordingly!

What's my name, bitches?

I played an absolutely terrible live session last night. I knew I was playing bad and tilting... but I stayed and continued to make the wrong plays again and again and again... I was even making my reads (i.e villain makes straight on turn) but not following through with them by shoving in this example.

So I'm taking a break. I said I wouldn't play for about a month and read a few more more 2+2 titles like theory of poker and NLHTAP... maybe re-read HOCG. Haha I don't know how well this will last... so far i'm one day in

So I was wondering if anyone else has played the worst session of their lives and taken a long break and the results from doing so??? Or any alternate methods to get back on track.

Honestly... it was that bad

Its truly a frame of mind, not one thing you can do.

Tilt happens, but don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

I used to tilt hardcore and the result wasn't me losing money, it was me losing my temper and funny enough I would actually play a bit better when angry, I don't go on tilt anymore because 1) i've had just about every beat you could have and 2) when I get a bad beat I don't even blink, I know that people are looking at me to see how I can keep my composure b/c its like blood in the water when someone gets hit hard.

my 0.02

Playing well overrolled really helps one tilt less fwiw.

I agree. You need more money on your bankroll so you don't feel it's tough losing a few buy ins. You don't have to play for all the money, just basicly deposit them so you can see them- it works for me.