tilt recovery

[BIGandRICH]

g'day all,

Tonight I had a shitty shitty run. I dragged around $80 of pots at .1/.2 NL and ended up down $20 due to an incredible number of bad beats. But i learnt something really useful because of it. Maybe it will help a few other people out there.

when i hit my low point of $20 down i tilted hugely and thankfully managed to leave straight away. And what i did was to go over all the beats in my mind and then write out my own hand histories. This made me really think about how the hands played out and as a result of that it was confirmed in my mind that i didnt actually make any errors in play just got sucked out on really badly.

Then i started to look at my loss in context with all my records and realised that having suffered a bad run, odds are sooner or later i'll hit a good run. thus evening out and leaving me on my average profit rate.
(all of which i knew deep in the back of my mind, but when I'm pissed off i tend to not think too logically)

and then i suddenly realised i was tilted no more.


So if it worked for me maybe it'll work for others.. If your tilting due to suckouts, go over your play and confirm to yourself that you are a good player, you do own the poker tables, you will make it back in due time and that that idiot that called your preflop raise with 84 suited, called your pot bets all the way to catch that river flush will soon enough pay you back double what you lost to him when he bluffs at your quad Kings, you raise him.. and yes he pays you off.

[Rondavu]

A couple bad reads, a couple bad decisions, a couple bad beats. It adds up fast sometimes.

One thing I like doing when I'm pissed is to go to the penny NL table and let out some aggression. I'll just go all in all over the place with consecutive $1 buy ins. It usually sobers me up a bit, and it freaks out the poor people.

[Element187]

i drink when im running bad, and some reason it helps me play better..


not sloshed ... but a decent buzz, enough to relax, get comfortable, and by that time i dont pay attention to bad beats, i just keep on playing my normal game.

[biondino]

Shortly after I started playing NL hold'em, I seemed to lose whenver I played stone cold sober, and win after a couple of beers. Oddly, that works best for bowling too - I guess there really is some manifestation of inhibition in your head that you can switch off without having to drink so much you start making bad judgement calls.

[Element187]

Shortly after I started playing NL hold'em, I seemed to lose whenver I played stone cold sober, and win after a couple of beers. Oddly, that works best for bowling too - I guess there really is some manifestation of inhibition in your head that you can switch off without having to drink so much you start making bad judgement calls.

i notice that with alot of things that require concentration.. i play guitar better after a few beers, poker, video games ...odd.