Stop Me From Tilting

[Talking Poker]

I'm bad at it too. And here's why:

In order to suck out a lot, you need to get your money in with the worst of it a lot. I don't do that very often, and I'll wager that you don't either.

[GTDawg]

I don't suck out a lot because I make sure I put my money in with the best hand.

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If you go on tilt, you either need to focus on breaking that habit or do something else. Keep yourself to playing the top-15 hands or so for a while. just sit back and take some deep breaths instead of getting back in and trying to win your money back.

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I used to have a terrible problem that I would lose my money after becoming big stack. I would double up or win a big pot early and then slowly piss it away trying to play bully. Then, I'd get upset and start throwing my money at the other players.

Consistency is the key.

[Dodoubled]

Ditto. I'm probably one of the worst big-stack players I know. I get some chips in front of me and start playing hands I wouldn't dream of playing with less chips, and I start playing Nelson to everyone else's Ralph Wiggum. I think the key to consistency is discipline, and it's just as easy to lose discipline when you have a big stack as it is to lose it when you have a small stack and/or go on tilt.

[BDMK]

lemme offer my puny 2 cents on this issue:

i decided to tackle the matter of discipline/self-control BEFORE i started playing poker.

so, about a year ago, when i decided id learn the rules of NLHE and indulge in it, i went to my local best buy and got a cheapo, but decent, poker sim software, and started plugging at it in all kinds of setups and situations.

particularly, i practiced with a short stack, after intentionally dropping a chunk of my chips early on in a simulated tourney. precisely to learn not to tilt and control myself.

after a couple of months of the above, i felt comfortable enough to slowly start playing online against other, real, ppl.

[JDMcNugent7]

Tilting is something every poker player goes through - and i think us younger ones are more likely to tilt than the older wiser ones.

I really couldnt figure out how to stop tilting either - UNTIL i realized how much freakin Easier it is to win when ur not tilting. Then i thought- wow - I've wasted tons of $ going on tilt.

Seriously do Not let urself go on tilt for a month. Everytime u are about to tilt Make urself stop playing. After awhile its a habit NOT to tilt - rather than to tilt.

[MAYHEM45]

Yeah what he said. AS SOON as you feel hot under the collar, shutter down, and go grab some beers or do whatever un-poker related.

BTW, this 6max challenge is making me alot more drunk than normal.