This post popped up on page one again thanks to the spammer, so I read it again.

Something I agree with 100%... don't look at the cashier while playing. I was 20+ tabling during the milestone thing on stars, and I would have the cashier open so I could assess my progress (or rather, lack of it), especially since it was very tough to track hands in which my stack was in... so when my roll dipped like 3 buy-ins in 5 mins, suddenly I'm not concentrating on my game and instead I'm wondering what the fuck just happened. Now I'm desperately trying to look back at the hand, though of course I'm not entirely sure which table it was, and tables keep demanding my attention, and I'm going "FUCK OFF I JUST WANNA SEE WHAT HAPPENED" and perhaps even fold AJo on the CO because I don't want to play it I want to see that hand that doesn't matter any more and then I see 66 called my shove with KK and hit the fucking turn and I'm like "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING IDIOT" now I'm trying to make a note and still play 20+ tables and still find out what happened to my other 2 buy-ins lost and now I need a ciggie so I can calm the fuck down and really I should just not have looked at the cashier in the first place because before then I was in the zone.

Every time I look at this OP I find something that resonates with me. Tilt control is an essential skill in poker, and it's not something I have mastered.