What is harder to deal with tilt wise out of poker and backgammon?
Join Date: Dec 2008
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Thinking about how much backgammon tilts a player compared to the variants of poker. Very curious to hear good players with experience in both games opinions on this (my backgammon game is awful and I never play it for stakes enough to put me on tilt). Is it a more pschologically draining than poker, and if so, why?
Join Date: Feb 2009
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Poker, because you can never be a 20,000:1 favorite
Join Date: Aug 2004
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My poker game is trash but it's not that hard to get some ridiculous beats in BG. Those are not that easy to deal with when you are playing for any kind of sizable stakes or playing for a living.
When it rains, it pours, I guess.
Join Date: Aug 2008
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I presume if you're playing a person of equal skill, both could be equally frustrating, but for the most part, in backgammon you're playing the same person for a long period of time and can figure out their leaks and tendencies easier and build a sizable advantage.
I personally played 100x more games against recreational players than world class and don't really remember last time I was tilted from a game.
I play a crap load against gnu though and the only thing that tilts me is not that I lose the majority of time (obv), but when I make a boneheaded play that pops up in the analysis with a bunch of ??? marks.
Join Date: Jun 2005
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Both make me want to kill myself on a regular basis, so who knows.
Join Date: Feb 2005
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I find poker much more tilt-inducing than backgammon.
In my case, I think it's because I can deal pretty well with low-probability events... but do not deal so well with the "you played THAT garbage and called a bet without even a decent draw, and now youve hit a runner-runner?" type of thing. In backgammon, I know where my opponent's pieces are, and get to see how he plays them, rather than wondering if my opponent holds "impossible" cards.
Join Date: Mar 2009
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no you can't go on tilt in backgammon beacuse you always want to impress snowie.
and in poker you can always justify bad play especially since no one is looking.
Join Date: Mar 2009
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the thing is in backgammon you get to play every hand, so to speak (unless you are on the bar)
poker you have to fold all the time and seemingly rarely get to play a hand. and of course folding requires 100x more effort than calling.
also in backgammon nothing is hidden. so you can have immediate feed back as to how much you suck or don't suck. whereas in poker you have to guess and can easily delude yourself into thinking you know what you are doing.
