^^ By far the most logical thing I found in this thread .

Thanks for that. I've been playing many years and once I achieved some technical skill (I'm comfortable w/ any game in the H.O.R.S.E. rotation) I had to turn inwards bec I realized how important it was and I comment in this forum bec I've been down that road and have quashed my tilt problem as far as it's possible for me to go. And I STILL have the occasional problem. Just the other day I lost a hand to the biggest donator in the game and even though he's lost a great deal to me it stung. It took a couple of seconds to shake it off. I can also turn off the adrenaline squirt that I sometimes get. But this problem, the poker psych problem, is life-long in my view and that's actually a good thing in it's way bec it can make us very much more self aware.

Perhaps it is being human but not a weakness but a strenght, perhaps just perhaps this is an inner knowledge that someone there before you at the tabke is better then you or getting stronger hands then normal, that is much more a psyche something beyond material and makibg you human .

Unless you are a mentally ill person who has some Freudian problem with bluffs, he means in my opion that the problems of poker are in poker thus it is a great game worth playing. You must rationalize when you gamble or maybe you are beat and not really tilted but defeated and agonizing the woe.