pillows are too squishy for me. no satisfaction. id much rather drop a 72" TV that i bought with my poker earnings from a 3rd story building and watch it shatter

I've pretty much gotten over being tilted by bad beats, except in the most extreme cases. What tilts me the most now is being card dead/cold decked. Sitting there for hours folding 93o watching money flying around at a super juicy table and getting NONE of the action.

Folding 93o for hours and the new guy sits down at the table and gets AA, KK, AK, JJ in their first 30 minutes.

Folding 93o for hours while watching the stack of the absolute worst player at the table grow and grow.

Jealousy tilts me

So I pull out my ipod, read a book, talk a walk, maybe go rail a friend for a while. This is still the tilt i have trouble dealing with the most because live poker is so slow.

I find baking and cooking helps as does the treadmill. Nothing helps drive the anger away like sweating it off. I am also finding staying within my bankroll has REALLLLLLLY helped out also. Just reminding myself that as long as I play solid the % will favor me and bad beats happen. Keeps me positive. Ofcourse once I type this I will have the doomswitch placed on me.

....and just like that I jinxed myself. Off for a bike ride.

Back in the days when I was grinding heavily, I used to throw my trackball across the room. But that got expensive. Then I obtained some cheap chips from a whiskey promotion and tossed those for a while until they all were broken.

Since I started using a laptop, I'm much less violent (it could get highly costly and I love my MacBook dearly), I just try to laugh about it and take it as part of doing business.

Maybe after a few years of getting sucked out on you just get numb to it. It doesn't seem to crush my soul the way it used to when someone would hit their one or two outer.

Shauna

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this sounds healthy

nothing like attacking those illogical beliefs head on

Bravo !!

I do crunches and planks but hey thats me.

haha yeah the laptop is probably a good idea when your titlting...the amount of times i have wanted to slam it closed after a beat, but you cant because yes its too expensive.

I have been on a desktop computer and kind of slammed the mouse down before and it broke :S oops

Yup that is always a tough situation, being card dead, highly frustrating!
Especially when you have chipped up and are near the leaderboard and get all excited but then just hit nothing and your chip stack just wastes away.

I always get frustrated when it seems everytime time you raise, everyone just seems to keep coming over the top of you.

Exercise is really healthy decision...let some steam off!

Yeah I don't recommend screwing with a laptop. After a $10/20 session of limit triple draw with someone I would have drove to in my metro area to play live if my g/f wouldn't have killed me...I dropped $1k in 20 minutes to this triple draw ~fish who dodged everything I drew to with his ****ty pat hands. Even he admitted in chat he was running good. He may have won $40k lifetime in the MTT database, but I still want to play him even right now...haha Needless to say, I'm still pissed...

Anyway, after crossing that $1k loss mark...I firmly hit the area where the mouse pad is located. The pressure I put on it was enough to **** up the motherboard. Fortunately, it was still under warranty, and I claimed an "accident". As a result, I'm still typing to you on the same laptop, no longer under warranty, today.

Loving all the ideas ladies! Just ran bad again this morning so I worked on laundry,dishes and ran the treadmill.

bump

play hypers for a while

one thing i noticed about tiling is i make better decisions because i have more time to think about the decision. i can auto fold obviously spots while thinking about something.... when you stack you have to make your decision before moving on to the next hand

For me anger = tilt. That's really the only thing that can tilt me. The anger towards a player who makes some silly moves and gets paid off due to the insane hits on the board