Backwards Tilt

I'm on a heater today. Up 5 BI in 100 hands of 8-tabling, so like 10 minutes. And I feel invincible. And then I realize I'm on an immortality binge. I get T8s UTG+1, raise it up thinking a 976 flop would be nice - zing - there it is. That sort of crap.

So I try to reel it in, play solid poker. But I try a couple of hero calls, and a crazy overshove. Sure, I'm up 7.5 BI in 2k hands today. But I should be up 10 BI without 3 or 4 dumbass moves.

While super-agro play on heater can run over tables, there's a limit. And I crossed it bigtime. Since serious heaters come around so rarely, I had never realized how my game can go to hell when I'm WINNING. Like everyone, negative variance can tilt me. But, positive variance?

Just knowing it exists is enough, I think, to keep it in control. But has anyone else experienced this? Just wondering.

Yes it happens.

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...er-t71884.html

There's my thread on it.

Sigh...I miss heaters...

5BI in 100hands? that's discustingOMGsickWTF?

It's still tilt. Anything that takes you away from your best game and best mental state is tilt.

Originally Posted by d0zer

Yes it happens.

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...er-t71884.html

There's my thread on it.

Sigh...I miss heaters...

5BI in 100hands? that's discustingOMGsickWTF?

Flopped quads got it all-in against 2 villains. Three flopped sets that got it all in. A flopped straight against two pair. Just one after the other. It was seriously sick.