Tilt Examples

What is your most comon tilt and how do you notice you are tilting? Mine is starting to play WAY too many chasing hands out of position. (i.e. 67s in early pos).

Mine is chasing suited one gappers from the button or calling from the SB "cause I already have some money in and I can bust somebody". Dumb, dumb,dumb.

I love playing SB since the pot odds are usually very good but it really requires good post flop play.

Originally Posted by Bo G

I love playing SB since the pot odds are usually very good but it really requires good post flop play.

Yeah, I ment calling a 3x or 4x raise from the SB when I am tilting. Don't u ever work?

Originally Posted by tracas

Originally Posted by Bo G

I love playing SB since the pot odds are usually very good but it really requires good post flop play.

Yeah, I ment calling a 3x or 4x raise from the SB when I am tilting. Don't u ever work?

This is work and BITE ME. Yeah calling raises from SB is bleeding money.

I tilt by playing 5% more hands and/or moving up a level to make back the money I lost.

Throwing my laptop. Punching things. Yelling at my girlfriend. Loosing sleep. I fucking hate poker.

I know I am on tilt when the thought behind a bet is "fuck it, let's gamble". Combine that with a wife telling me to get off the computer. NOT GOOD!

loosening up my play, cbetting the flop turn and then on the river with ace high...lol...calling allins with TPTK on the flop, occasionally chasing draws when pot odds are slightly against me...umm....calling an all in with overcards...lol...thats it i think, well ihope it is...

Raising sooted junk UTG and fire three barrels after hitting only a piece.

Sometimes I river some weird trips or backdoor straight and beat that JJ/set, then someone else starts his steaming.

But taking a break is still better way, conservative but more reliable...

My biggest donk play when on tilt is overplaying hands. I bet and get minraised, put a guy on a flush draw, and push my stack in. Of course he's not calling. I don't value bet where I really need to.

In terms of physically, I've broken a couple of things in the past and thrown plenty of things. I'm going to include mice in my poker expenses.

But I'm almost past most of this physical aggression. It was part of my new year's resolution. And I'm also trying to narrow down each decision to itself. There's always a right and a wrong, and I know that pushing is usually wrong, for instance. I know that tilting or not, so I'm trying to make the right decision EVERY decision and stick with it, even if I KNOW that guy's going to call and hit his freakin' flush.

Re-raising my bluffs.

Not folding junk hands on BB and then getting sucked in to middle pair because people are checking.

Cont betting every flop regardless of position, number of players in etc.

Re-raising the table maniac who's just destacked me because he CAN'T have a monster yet again.

Originally Posted by biondino

Cont betting every flop regardless of position, number of players in etc.

Re-raising the table maniac who's just destacked me because he CAN'T have a monster yet again.

Thanks! You just helped me identify two leaks. I do that way to often these last two weeks. I hate downswings...

There's "good" tilt, too.
Like when you win a big hand and start feeling invincible, playing that K-10os UTG. "What the hell, I'll call that ten dollars--if I hit the A, I'll double up again!"
That sort of thing.

Ignoring reads and instinct is a good sign you're tilting. An example would be having TP KJs on a king high board, and when raised by a tight player, you stick around.

Originally Posted by Warpe

Re-raising my bluffs.

This must cost you huge!

Exhibit A: Blew off the min r/r stop sign..fortunately I "guessed" correctly. Afterwards, I just thought "whew", you got away with one.

So maybe my tilt is guessing/denial of my gut reads.

Seat 8: Coldneck ($51.40 in chips)
Seat 9: ChicgoKid ($44.95 in chips)
Seat 10: TheNuts77 ($33.65 in chips)
RedKaos: posts small blind $0.25
Lord_M: posts big blind $0.50
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to ChicgoKid [Kd Qd]
Tjifen: folds
TightMoFo: folds
emfi: calls $0.50
poney: calls $0.50
Coldneck: folds
ChicgoKid: raises to $3
TheNuts77: folds
efunk33: folds
RedKaos: folds
Lord_M: folds
emfi: calls $2.50
poney: folds
----- FLOP ----- [Qc 4s Tc]
emfi: checks
ChicgoKid: bets $4
emfi: raises to $8
ChicgoKid: raises to $41.95 and is all-in
emfi: folds
Returned uncalled bets $33.95 to ChicgoKid
ChicgoKid: doesn't show hand
ChicgoKid collects $22.10 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot $23.25 Main pot $22.10 Rake $1.15
Board [Qc 4s Tc]
Seat 1: efunk33 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: RedKaos (small blind) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Lord_M (big blind) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Tjifen folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: TightMoFo folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: emfi folded on the Flop
Seat 7: poney folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Coldneck folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: ChicgoKid collected $22.10
Seat 10: TheNuts77 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

My other one is betting draws too hard into TAG's and TAP's.

Originally Posted by Irisheyes

Originally Posted by Warpe

Re-raising my bluffs.

This must cost you huge!

Only on days of high testosterone and stupidity levels. "Try to outbluff me, will he? Well, I'll show him!"

There are different levels of tilt. Some players have a hard time recognizing when they are on tilt and that is very dangerous.

Originally Posted by BankItPayette

I tilt by playing 5% more hands and/or moving up a level to make back the money I lost.

Throwing my laptop. Punching things. Yelling at my girlfriend. Loosing sleep. I fucking hate poker.

Is it really worth it then?

Exhibit B: This is just sad, sad, tilt. The guy was under 20 VPIP and had a healthy stack...hum...TILT!

***** Hand History for Game 3538882264 *****
$50 NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, February 12, 01:25:13 EDT 2006
Table Table 64928 (Real Money)
Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 3: lmtvegas ( $83.89 )
Seat 4: Chicago_Kid ( $57.95 )
Seat 5: drlloyd15 ( $65.89 )
Seat 6: Kimosabe56 ( $56.75 )
Seat 7: UFOLD2MUCH ( $50.65 )
Seat 8: cwbeinbo6192 ( $29.32 )
Seat 10: King4484 ( $122.30 )
Seat 9: Misterq82 ( $32.51 )
Seat 1: BradS13 ( $83.75 )
Seat 2: skyscreamer ( $49.25 )
cwbeinbo6192 posts small blind [$0.25].
Misterq82 posts big blind [$0.50].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Chicago_Kid [ Qs Qh ]
King4484 folds.
BradS13 folds.
skyscreamer folds.
lmtvegas raises [$1].
Chicago_Kid raises [$3].
Kimosabe56 folds.
UFOLD2MUCH folds.
cwbeinbo6192 folds.
Misterq82 folds.
lmtvegas raises [$6].
>You have options at Table 65351 Table!.
Chicago_Kid calls [$4].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9d, 5h, 2s ]
lmtvegas bets [$10].
Chicago_Kid is all-In.
lmtvegas calls [$40.95].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kh ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8c ]
lmtvegas shows [ Ad, Ac ] a pair of aces.
Chicago_Kid doesn't show [ Qs, Qh ] a pair of queens.
lmtvegas wins $113.65 from the main pot with a pair of aces.
>You have options at Table 65351 Table!.

how do i know im on tilt?
i cap every street at 2/4 with any hand for 5 hands

then i go to 2nl and just pooosh every hand
and bereate everyone for not calling.

Then i call it a day

then i go to 2nl and just pooosh every hand

I used to do that waaaaaaaay back in April last year when I first started online cards.

occasionally chasing draws when pot odds are slightly against me...

Sometimes you can take one card off on the flop but on then turn you need to get away esp if they make a 2/3 to pot sized bet at you.