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Posts: 3854 · Posted: 04.08.2013, 19:27

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TILT

Being on tilt means letting your emotions disrupt your ability to play. All poker players go on tilt at least once during their career, but limiting these episodes is essential to winning at poker. Poker is a game that requires reason. If you have [[cards Qs Js]], and the flop comes [[cards Ah Qh 10h]], and there is a lot of betting action, you need to know to fold. If you were on tilt, you would let your emotions take control and make you do whatever it took to take down the pot. You would keep chasing, hoping to catch a king and hoping that no one had a flush.

In general, people who get upset and don't stay focused and reasonable will lose all the money they brought to the table. Poker is almost anti-human in the way it triggers emotions but rewards people who are made of stone. I don't mean to scare you or act as if all poker players are unemotional rocks, but it is imperative to stay focused and rational while at the poker table.

Generally, most players tilt due to a bad beat or if they just can't seem to win a hand. Some players have a slight tilt after they win a big hand or two, but those episodes generally are much shorter than tilts caused by losing.

While going on tilt is natural, you need to limit it. Generally, the best way is to sit out a couple of hands and go for a walk.

Another good way to handle a bad beat is to just think about all the bad beats you have laid in the past.

Listening to music is another way to avoid tilt. The positive vibes you get from a song you enjoy will help counteract the negative emotions from a bad beat. I would also suggest changing songs or CDs after you have suffered a bad beat. This way you distract yourself from getting too emotionally caught up in the poker game.

Many people, myself included, tend to curse at the computer if they get bad beat. However, for myself at least, cursing is not nearly as therapeutic as thinking about that huge bad beat I laid at another table. Cursing tends to make you more mad and will cause you to develop some bad habits. When you are about to go on tilt, sit out and think happy thoughts (as cheesy as it sounds, it's true), and hopefully you can resume playing your best.

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Posts: 6338 · Posted: 04.08.2013, 20:54

I don't really know what I'm doing most of the time LOL I usually get upset if someone keeps betting all the time!!!!!!!!

Posts: 526 · Posted: 05.08.2013, 18:26

hehe I know I go on tilt ALOT. I have only played like twice at a casino in person and I didn't have a problem staying under control. But playing online people play differently and it irks the crepe out of me most of the time lol.

Posts: 1263 · Posted: 05.08.2013, 23:11

"Many people, myself included, tend to curse at the computer if they get bad beat."
This made my day Archie, I thought I was the only one !!!

Posts: 2787 · Posted: 06.08.2013, 03:46

I have been known to talk, beg and curse at the computer...lol... but it helps to blow off some steam too. I only play poker when alone due to this tendency.

Posts: 1263 · Posted: 06.08.2013, 11:19

The "tilt" is probably the 2nd biggest difference of live vs. online poker, with the 1st being tells.

Posts: 212 · Posted: 06.08.2013, 21:18

I am tilting now..... urghhhh./// Cool

Posts: 2993 · Posted: 07.08.2013, 19:27

This is great information and advice. Thank you once again.

I think I would play on "tilt" a good portion of the time, with a little reason thrown in.
For some reason, I get REALLY nervous (interacting with other people does that to me) Embarassed

Posts: 822 · Posted: 10.08.2013, 21:30

Great advice!! Where was this the last time I played poker LOL

Posts: 274 · Posted: 15.08.2013, 13:47

scyan wrote: › I am tilting now..... urghhhh./// Cool

ummmmm...I'm "telling"......weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Posts: 3854 · Posted: 24.08.2013, 15:32

First of all...
BUMP because this thing closes tonight kids.

Alrighty, yes I also have been known to CURSE obscenities at the computer, and it is a darn good thing those other players at the table did not hear my thoughts, but it really is silly to get so upset about one hand of many more opportunities.

AND BLOWING THE NEXT HAND OR FEW OUT OF FRUSTRATION IS THE DUMBEST PART, AND YES I HAVE DONE THAT TOO.

TY ARCHIE FOR ALWAYS MAKING US THINK, and it is good to know you have had to tread water too, if only occasionally, my dearest OBI WAN. Razz

LOL