It's almost impossible to beat tilt. You might be able to control it to an extent by getting up and taking a break but everyone goes on tilt to some degree.

I'm not talking about tilt.

I'm talking about dealing with the ups and downs from day to day: winning $200 three days in a row, then losing $600 to negate all the positives.

It feels like I'm spinning my wheels. I'm having a winning month and a winning year, which is good, but I believe I should be winning even more.

Do you think losing sessions are inevitable? Do you FEEL it after an hour or so, that it's not your night? Are you better off getting up when you get this feeling or fighting through it?

Any night can be your night if you make sure you are playing almost every night - DUCY? But it's not about it being your night it's about grinding and just playing each hand well.

"Do you think losing sessions are inevitable?" - Is that a real question?

Your mindset right now is clearly not optimal. Does not even seem close.

Some fight straight threw the swings and have good results with that but some don't deal well with them and therefore have a stop loss or even if they sense they are anxious / tilty etc they just get up. At the end of the day it often boils down to what you feel most comfortable with so try to figure that out and apply it and see what happens. But I must say with what you described above I'm not sure if you will ever be comfortable playing poker unless I have misunderstood you.

Pretty much a man the f#$k up and keep grinding or consider not playing as much / at all. This is poker.

^^i consider my self oh so intelligent and good god damn live-experienced,
but i couldnt have dreamed of saying it any better than that.

I feel your pain. I have a stop loss of 1 buy-in. I take a 5-10 minute break every hour. I drink plenty of fluids at the table so that I am forced to get up. I get up after losing a big pot. Basically I'm never at the table lol.

I also practice mindful breathing. It's good to follow the action and try to form reads on everyone but for someone like me, mental energy is sparse. I may miss out on some information but it will allow me to focus and concentrate when I need it the most, when I'm in a hand.

Yes you are and you can eliminate it the same way you eliminate other forms of tilt.

I disagree. It's not tilt. It's just a frustration AFTER the session that doesn't carry over until the next one. I went back Saturday and won $215 in 3 hours.

Sometimes, you run into coolers - or plays when you make a mistake. That's not tilt. We're not perfect. We make the wrong decisions once in a while.

If you are adequately bankrolled, are a long term winner, there should be no carryover or long-term frustration, and of course no tilt. And part of being a winner is virtual immunity to short term luck shifts.

Frustration is a factor of being a long term loser and/or under bankrolled for the level you are playing. If you are feeling frustration, there is a problem with your game.

look up stuff written by tommy angelo on tilt,it helped me out alot and might help you too.

This is an interesting one, last time I played poker at the casino I was at a table and getting no luck and bad cards, after 3 or so hours of losing and bad beats I got fed up and moved to a different table where within the first 30mins I'd won my money back plus a bit more.

It's tough to decide whether to stick it out and hope for your luck to change or whether to get up and change table, maybe it just comes down to instinct I don't know, but it definitely makes you wonder!