Handling tilt
What is tilt?
- Not being able to react in a proper way in specific situations due to emotional leaks that stop you from making rational decisions
- Losing what is important for the long run - You are the better play and will win money by being patient
- Changing your strategy and losing your A-Game, losing your perspective
Where does it come from?
In Poker:
- Bad Beats
- Not having a playable hand for “a long” time
- See other people always sucking out and making bad plays that still win them chips
In Life:
- Beliefs from when you were a child
- Different behavior from different people
- Other perspectives
Tips how to handle tilt
- Make one thing clear - You don’t deserve anything in life
- Tilt teaches you a lot of things
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It comes in situations where you:
- Feel uncomfortable
- Where you have few experiences
- You have a bad strategy
- You are overwhelmed
- Have too high expectations (e.g. when all-in as a favorite and you still loose)
If you prepare enough for those situations, you can overcome the tilt that usually comes with it
It is hard, but:
- Try to focus on YOUR game
- If you are sure, you did not make any mistakes, why tilt about it?
- Stop blaming your opponents (“bad play”, “such a fish”, etc.)
- Don’t take tilt from poker/life into other situations
It will affect those close to you as well. Be able to stop a session where you feel the tilt coming. Chasing losses never helps, especially if you aren’t able to play your A-Game.
Move down in stakes:
- It should make playing easier (easier decisions)
- ry out other plays where, so far, you lost all the time (not that costly to try it out on lower stakes)
Motivation
Goals:
- NOT: “I want to make X€ in the next 4 weeks”
- BUT: “I will do my best to be a profitable player over the next 5000 tournaments”
- OR: “I will focus on my play from the Button and avoid making costly mistakes”
- OR: “I will make a note for every player I play whenever I see a big mistake, so I can exploit him from now on”
- etc.
- Reaching those goals is easier than setting yourself utopian money goals
- Focus on this and make small steps instead of one big one that is almost not possible to reach
- Stop focusing on the big crushers, because they “run so good”
- Focus on yourself!
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