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Originally Posted by unsolvedmysteries
I got over tilt by playing through tilt. It is just an emotion it wont last forever. The problem is if you quit every time you are upset you wont be playing much poker. A lot of things go wrong when we play. Once you accept the variance in poker you wont tilt anymore. Things you can do on the tables is make sessions shorter until you put together a few winning sessions and feel better about your game.
I think this is a bit too dangerous. Yes, tilt is an emotion, usually triggered by reality not conforming to your expectations. It's a very soft game where that wild whale playing 90 VPIP stacks you 4 times in a row always showing up AA, and the only time it 3bet you all in with 72o vs your AA, it flopped a boat and won at showdown. How unlikely is this whole situation? You think online poker is rigged, the universe is unfair, whatever. And then, due to those emotions, you go on tilt and play bad (it doesn't even have to be rage tilt, you just can't play your normal game because your mind keeps ruminating on what happened).
To me, the way to get over tilt is to, away from the tables and over time, improve your understanding, work a lot on your game and in every concept you either don't understand or got it wrong. Like, In this case, understanding how math and statistics really work.
After your understanding of the game and the other subjects related to it improve, maybe you can develop some routine, some hack you can use in game when you become aware of bad emotions happening, and then, it will be safer and better to keep playing. Until then, I'm not fully convinced.