OK... I feel this will probably be a fairly long post but here goes....

I am a sucessful LHE player and have been for just over a year now. I have played profitably at all levels up to and including $15/$30 over a decent sample size. I feel that I have a significant edge in pretty much all the games I play (thanks to good game selection).

My problem is tilt control. I have built up so many bankrolls over the past 15 or so months only to absolutely destroy them whilst angry, upset, tired or drunk. I think there is even a thread on here somewhere about me blowing a $17k bankroll playing blackjack .

I had been doing extremely well up until about 2 weeks ago and I thought that this degenerate gambooooling tilt monster side of me was finally dead but then one night whilst extremely tired I managed to blow my roll followed by a decent chunk of my savings.

Re-deposited early this week and have been grinding it out and doing fairly well which worries me.... It worries me because I always "do well" after setting new goals and promising myself I wont be a retard again but I always seem to end up doing it again, even if it is months and months down the line.

My question to you guys is this:

Have any of you ever had this problem in the past and managed to overcome it? I know that nobody can help me with my own self-control but I'm starting to wonder if I should quit playing poker.

It almost kills me to say that. I've really worked hard learning the game I love and grinded out hundreds of thousands of hands, I know that if I hadnt blown that 17k roll many moons ago that I could be rolling in $$$ by now. I also know that I could still make alot of money if I keep myself under control from now-on.

What do you think?

Once a gambler always a gamber? Or can a leopard change its spots?

Is a year proof enough that I'm just never going to have the self control required?

Have any of you been in this situation before and gone on to learn to control yourself?


All replies appreciated.