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Originally Posted by ArtySmokes
For a first video, this is really excellent.
Presentation is a little drab - you're basically just reading the text on the screen, which I could get by reading a book - but I appreciate the clarity of your speech. It's so much better than some of the mumbling I hear on Deuces Cracked "live" commentaries.
"How do you deal with tilt?" is a frequently asked question in the BQ forum. Next time someone asks, I'll direct them to this vid. Nice one Nicole!
Any ideas on what you think would be beneficial to incorporate other than just talking over the powerpoint? I do discuss things verbally far more in depth than the actual points of the slide, but I recognize that this is still basically a lecture format, and those can be dull. I'm open to any ideas anyone might have for improving this.
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Originally Posted by G_train24
Nice video, ty. An idea for something you could address would be returning to i suppose a "normal state" after experiencing tilt as quickly as possible whilst playing MTTs. While taking a break is possible when playing cash, when playing MTTs it may be one hour into a 10 hour session, and you may have 10+ tables going already, thus just taking a break isn't at all possible. Any thoughts on this would be useful imo.
Certainly a valid point. Obviously you have to be very broad/generic when discussing such a wide ranging topic, which means that you sometimes don't cover a specific problem like this one.
Returning to a neutral emotional state is very individual specific; the best method, of course, is training yourself not to get overly emotive in the first place. Barring that, at least in the short term, a specific script that targets your most frequent tilt inducing thoughts may help.
For example, say that you specifically get quite angry when someone wins a pot where you were a significant favorite because this is "unfair". The underlying irrational thought here is that things are fair; rationally, I think we all understand that life isn't fair, and certainly an inanimate object like a random number generator is neither fair nor unfair.
So when you start getting tilted at you can't take a break, you repeat (out load if necessary) a specific set of principles that you prepare in advance that specifically target this. Something like:
Poker is a game of math, and sometimes the huge underdog sucks out. There is nothing unfair about this; it's just math. In addition, the universe does not owe me fairness. Getting worked up over this only hurts me, not my opponents.
Hope you get the basic gist of what I'm saying here, and that someone finds it helpful.