So what kinds of things other than money do somwe sucsessful players imploy to reamin ever evolving like this games is?

It's all about staying mentally stable and for most people that has to do with money and how well rolled you are for the stake you are playing. You can't let petty things piss you off either like losing AA allin preflop.

I was playing in the $30+3 miniFTOPS yesterday and the guy on my left was playing pretty loose and fast early. He built up a stack to ~12K early which was big stack at our table. He got it all in against a 6K stack on a flop that was limped preflop his AQ vs K7 on 568ss board (LOL?) and lost to the K7. He flipped out in chat and lost his chat immediately. Then he open shoves the next 10 hands in a row. He gets back to ~8K and stops tilting. He plays decently and builds back up to 14K later in the tourney. He loses a race in a 10K pot and is down to 8K and starts open shoving every hand again. How do people get this tilty, this easily? I don't see how a player like that can ever be a winner no matter how good they are.

i would have to agree, but it seems like these player make hands a lot when im at the table, and then make a dumb mistake and flip out, like they deserve to win all the time. its pretty lol really, i saw the same in the miniFTOPS#1 but to a larger degree i saw a guy card rack like no other up to 100k when the average stack was 26k. then looses an allin pf AA>than his KK and he went berserk open shoving like 7 hands ina row and got melted down to 19k or something like that.

point being that i think we should all learn to understand that we are going to loose a fair amount of hands playing poker and its -EV to dwell on it. a good player is going to loose 40% of his hands. think realizing this and implementing a stop-loss type of control is essential for a hUSNG player and should be a thing we think about daily.

I have been stop lossing myself after 3 losses in a row because I usually will tilt in the 4th. I have to play a complete moron who is open shoving to stay past 3 in a row. I go watch TV or do something else for a little until I forget about it. I also don't play very many games a day because of this, but it has been necessary for my early success in HUSnG's.

I basically can't allow poker to consume my life. I had a nasty bad play streak and I think it is because I was trying too hard to "make money". I usually enjoy playing and thinking about HU poker. I spend 2x as much time reading/learning as I do playing. I usually play better when I'm enjoying myself.

nice post

i am still trying to control tilt, but i'm always actively reviewing my HH as well. it just feels like **** when you do lose 3 in a row and all of them are being sucked out or running into coolers. but then again i won't have that mentality that i am able to win that 4th game as well so i do take breaks as well.

"Studying your own HH and making notes on each hand after a few games every time you play.this may sound time consuming and tedious, but if your wanting to get better, then this will DRANTICALLY improve your game."

Agreed.

I think about every hand 24/7, and how I could've played them differently, even the games I won, because I'm my biggest critic.

QFT