Tilt Breaker

One thing I've always had problems with is having the discipline to close all open tables around the hour mark, which is the point when I start to become too passive and too fancy. I'm also prone to doing the same when I'm plus or minus 3BI+ in a session, so I figured I'd download the 14-day free trial of Tilt Breaker.

Tilt Breaker seems like a good product on face value for a tilt monkey like me. The software is easy to set up, works straight away (unlike almost every other poker software out there it seems) and is easy to use. I won't bore anybody with a detailed product description, but I set the product up to do the following (which all worked perfectly):

1) Run a report on win rate wrt session length. It was pretty clear that my win rate begins to rapidly deteriorate somewhere between the 60-75 minute mark.

2) Following on from (1), the software was set to irreversibly close all tables down after 60 minutes, with no tables allowed to be opened within one hour of the prior session ending.

3) I also set the software to close all tables if I became 2.5BI down at any point, as I've a habit of accentuating bad sessions with bad play

To be fair to Tilt Breaker, (1)-(3) all worked perfectly and the product does exactly what it says on the tin.

That said, Tilt Breaker is actually pretty tilting in the sense that the product cannot be tinkered with for certain nuances of tilt. My biggest tilt issue is mistake tilt, which causes spew to kick in. I'm fine with losing flips or set over set, yet I can easily lose two of those in the first five minutes of a session and find all of my tables closed for an hour. The product would therefore be fine if it could be adjusted to work on all-in adjusted EV.

I'd therefore say that this product is worth a look only if you have serious control and anger issues (in which case you probably need to rethink playing poker), but don't bother if you have some self-control or are at least determined to conquer your demons!