Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 37
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I guess I'm lucky. I'm not emotionally attached to poker, or hands, or pots. Bad beats do not bother me in ring games, but does occasionally in SnG's & tourney's if it puts me out. Bother is not the same as tilt.
Not that I don't go on tilt...LOL. The biggest single thing that will send me off the deep end on occasion is getting disconnected in the middle of a tourney or SnG! Man that bothers me sometimes, if I cannot get back in a few minutes. When this happens, I usually just quit for the day.
Each day is a new day. Each hand is played as if the universe was reset as the cards are dealt. The game owes me nothing, the pot owes me nothing, the players owe me nothing. The fruit is on the tree ripe for picking. My tools for the job at hand are 2 cards.
Shall ye enter? Or wait for the next tree (hand)?
I think your personality and/or nature plays a big factor in how tilt affects you. Also in how fast or slowly you recover from tilt. Maniacs are usually very egotistical & tilt easier than most. They do not usually let go once you stack 'em & come back for more. I love maniacs!
I also love tilted players!
Seeing others on tilt, I think, helps me to avoid it as it is obvious to me & everyone else at the table that they begin to play badly or worse. I do not want to be that player.
But, like I said, I am more of an emotionally unattached player. What I enjoy most, is the challenge of outwitting someone & is why I try to be aggressive & isolate players in a hand. When I do get outwitted, it motivates me to be better.
There are 2 great motivators in this world. Fear & greed. Get past those, or redirect them, & I believe you will become better at almost anything. It allows you to see with clarity. On tilt, we simply cannot see clearly & emotions enter our decision making proccesses & we are doomed.
So when the dark cloud is overhead, head for the light & get out from under that cloud!....LOL
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"Hey Boz, whay are you Canadians so polite"
"Oh that, it's purely economics"
"Economics???....what??"
"Yeah, it doesn't cost anything to have manners, & quite often it pays off"
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