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  1. teamnolimit1 teamnolimit1 is offline

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    Jul 3rd, 2008 (7/3/2008 8:20am)

    Today i went on tilt worse than i ever havwe before. The sad part was i knew it. What is the best way to control yourself in those situations. I just give away about 800 playing that way it was way out of character for me. Any advise would greatly be appreciated.
  2. Scha Scha is offline Creator of SchaArcade & SchaCam

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    Jul 3rd, 2008 (7/3/2008 8:44am) in reply to teamnolimit1

    If you are multitabling, when you go all in, cover the table with the lobby, or some other window. Don't bring it back up untill it pops up on its own because its your turn again, and dont check the HH why you won/lost.
  3. curiousgeorge curiousgeorge is online now baby duck hat

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    Jul 3rd, 2008 (7/3/2008 8:45am) in reply to Scha

    this is a good idea.
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    Jul 3rd, 2008 (7/3/2008 8:58am) in reply to curiousgeorge

    If you're playing live and you realize that - three hands later - you're still thinking about a bad beat, stand up. If possible, find a TV and watch The Simpsons or something not poker - or even sports - related. Don't sit back down until whatever put you on tilt is the farthest thing from your mind.
  5. Scha Scha is offline Creator of SchaArcade & SchaCam

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    Jul 3rd, 2008 (7/3/2008 9:00am) in reply to cassettecounty

    Tilting live? Who does that? If your playing live you can just beat the shit out of the guy who put you on tilt. Problem solved
  6. JackBileDuct JackBileDuct is offline

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    Jul 3rd, 2008 (7/3/2008 9:41am) in reply to Scha

    OMG! I thought I was the only one that did that :). I *never* look any more. No I'm not saying I can make a card appear but.. I focus on the card I don't want to see. No A, no A, no A and of course it hits. So I started dragging another window over the top oof the one where I'm all in so I can't focus on what I don't want to come. I usually look at the HH afterwards though.
  7. dan182 dan182 is offline

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    Jul 3rd, 2008 (7/3/2008 9:53am) in reply to teamnolimit1

    Scott Fischman said it best........ Suckout on someone. You will imediately start feeling better!
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    Jul 3rd, 2008 (7/3/2008 1:11pm) in reply to teamnolimit1

    Play within your bankroll. If you have 2K in you acct and you lose a bad beat all-in for $50, it's no big deal, put in another $50 and get back to work. Never jump up in limits after losing money. Set a stop loss. Say if I lose $200 in a session, stop and don't play for the rest of the day. If you feel yourself starting to tilt, take a break, watch a cardrunners video or something. These things have all helped me, although we all get a little tilty every now and then :)
     
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    Jul 3rd, 2008 (7/3/2008 1:24pm) in reply to teamnolimit1

    put a banana in your ear
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    Jul 3rd, 2008 (7/3/2008 2:38pm) in reply to wowswift

     
    Originally Posted by wowswift View Post

    put a banana in your ear

    it works
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    Jul 3rd, 2008 (7/3/2008 4:14pm) in reply to ryan8616

    Here are the best ways, imo, of stopping yourself from tilting, in descending order (meaning #1 on the list is the best way of all, etc)

    1. Never play MTTs (ever (EVER)): MTTs are like the "perfect storm" as far as inducing tilt goes imo. Here is why:

    - MTTs last a long time. Anything that last a long time is more likely to make you impatient, and impatience can lead to frustration can lead to tilt.

    - MTTs have a fuckin BRUUUTAL payout structure. In addition to being able to "bubble" a tourney, which is often good enough on it's own to send you into a tiltrage, they also generally have the majority of the prize pool stuck in the top 3 or 4 payout spots of the tourney, even for tournies with THOUSANDS of entrants. This means it is possible to wade through like 2,000-3,000+ players, and then finish 10th place, and make almost no money, even though you went EXTREMELY deep in the tourney, and probably had a massive several hundred thousand or maybe even 1 million+ sized chipstack throughout the tourney, and possibly chip leadership at some points, just because your QQ lost all in preflop to AK on the FT bubble. GG life, etc.

    - When you begin to notice the telltale signs of tilt-formation building up inside you (your skin, especially on your forehead feels kinda hot, you are shaking one of your legs rapidly, and you feel angry and impatient in general), you can't do shit. You're fucked. You can't just leave the tourney. Nope, that isn't how MTTs work. Once you are in... you are in... It isn't like a cash game where you can just stand up from the table the INSTANT you begin to feel tiltish. It's a tourney, you have to stay till you finish tilting ALL the rest of your stack off. GG sonnnn.

    2. Have a very large banrkoll relative to the stakes you are playing. For example, for no limit cash games, if you have more than 100 maximum buyins for the stakes you are playing, it isn't likely that you're gonna even flinch when your AA loses all in preflop to A7 offsuit for a full stack. It just won't. You just lost less than 1% of your bankroll on a HORRIBLE, but who cares, you are in no dire danger. You are still just about exactly as loaded bankroll-wise as you were before. It's all goot. If you continue to play solid winning poker, then aint no thang obv. And then for SNGs and MTTs if you have 200 buyins for 1-table sngs and 400 buyins for MTTs, again, ditto on not giving a fuck about bad beats. You are gonna be nice and overbankrolled, and this will make it a lot harder for you to tilt just based on being like NOOOoooo there goes the rent kinda stuff.

    3. Play a shitload of tables. If you are playing like 12 or more tables, and you get stacked on one of them on a bad beat, there is a good chance you LITERALLY won't even NOTICE that it happened. You'll be so busy making +ev decision after +ev decision, once every second or two, that you won't even have time to notice your bad beat, let alone get angry about it.

    4. Have sex with a REALLY really really really really hot chick. If you just fucked, or are about to fuck a really really really really really hot chick, it will be impossible for you to ever get angry about anything. Ever. (She has to be a minimum 9.7/10 though (Jessica Alba is only a 9.4/10 maybe 9.5/10 when she was in her prime for comparison)

    5. Be all like, buddhism/mediation/zen style shit or whatever. If you can like, just do the whole cross legged thing where you chill and are like "ommmmmmmm"and shit after someone rapes you with like 3 1-outters in a row for like $6,000 and stuff, then maybe you will be able to pwn your mind into somehow not caring about it or something. Fuck if I know, I've never tried it, but I'm pretty sure a buddhist monk would not be capable of going on tilt ever, so yea. That would probly work if you can figure out how to do it.

    imo
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