how to avoid tilt

can anyone give me tips for avoiding tilt and also advice for dealing with tilt once your allready there

play a lot of poker, so much that you realize the ups and downs are part of the normal game. As long as you are making the most +EV play you are profiting. Short term results are worthless.

1) Realise that playing a tilted game is irrational and will lose you money (not win anything back)
2) Stop tilting
3) If you can't stop tilting, quit the game and let off steam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i5DAVR1ElU

Tilting threads amuse me. The part of the game that tilts you is the part that keeps weak players at the tables paying off strong players. Whenever I stay focused on the big picture, that this game has a small average win rate and HUGE variance, I'm almost un-tiltable.

Think about this, would you play golf against Tiger Woods for serious money? In poker, that skill difference exists a LOT, and the weak players keep paying off, over and over.

If you're a winning player, the results will come - eventually. I have taken 4 serious shots at 25nl, and negative variance plus variance-induced tilt have sunk previous attempts (currently on my 4th). The funny part is, I'd never have had to drop back to 10nl if I didn't add tilty spew to the variance losses.

Each time the big blind comes around to you, take 5-10 seconds to evaluate your tilt level. (Live games you can just hold your chips for a moment, online uncheck the autopost.) Are you still angry about a bad hand during the past orbit? If so, will it continue to occupy your mind, or can you forget it completely? If it is something that is sticking with with you, leave the table. You can always come back later.

Also, when you are assessing your tilt level, often there are physical signs that it is affecting you: hot head and sweatiness, headache, stomach flips, swearing, clenched fists/muscles, etc. You should be able to play in a relaxed physical state.

Another thing to remember is that tilt affects you in different ways. Usually we think of it as making us reckless, chasing pots we have no business being in, making massive bets/bluffs, etc. But tilt can also have the opposite effect: making us too timid or gunshy, afraid to pursue pots we should, give villains bad drawing odds, etc. We just got stacked, so no we are afraid to use our chips as a weapon because we fear losing more, so we are not playing optimally.

Make sure you practice good bankroll management, and play a lot of hands.

keep a bong, a bag and a lighter by your side

Originally Posted by c-luvin

keep a bong, a bag and a lighter by your side

hahah nice first post in months

Take each hand separately and don't let other players get to you. Don't take the game personally.

don't suffer bad beats obv

Originally Posted by brewer

Take each hand separately

just 24 of them at a time (or 16 at a time if you have a wide-set vag)

Tilt is all about bankroll and not understanding the math.