Stop Me From Tilting

[left68wing]

I have an incredible tilting problem. If I get bad beat, I pretty much blow up 50% of the time. Either I'll blow the rest of my stack or I'll cash into a table that is out of my limit. Anyone have any advice for me as to how to stop this habit. So far it hasn't hurt me bc I've not lost much on these tilts but I know in the future it will cost me.

[JPSmiley]

well you could stop playing whenever you feel you are going to go on tilt, and make yourself a promise that after a horrible beat you are going to take a breather.

[Talking Poker]

Seriously: Poker might not be for you.

You need to get that under control immediately, or you should really just stop playing.

[left68wing]

any suggestions as to help cure the urges

[Talking Poker]

Urges are urges. We all have them all the time. It's the acting on them that we need to control.

I can see a hot girl at the beach and get some "urges," but that doesn't mean I run up to her and start humping her leg, ya know? Self control. You need to just turn it on, and if you can't, you should probably stop playing.

[eejit101]

Thats where ive been going wrong, i thought this was acceptable behaviour

But seriously now, avoid this. I was like this my first 2 months, then i thought what the hell am i doing. Am taking the same amount of beats, but not losing the same amount of $$ after them.

[Boobie Lover]

Poker is just a series of percentages played out. Try to think of it as a long battle instead of getting upset when the 5:1 underdog wins a hand.

[Hawt]

Next time you feel yourself starting to go on tilt, transfer me all your money (Hawtness on Stars). You can't lose what you don't have.

[PShabi]

When you sense this about to happen, gather self-control, and don't let it happen.

Are people this mentally weak?

[rookette22]

Well...I tend to come in here and let off some steam. Sorry all....

Seriously....I'm going to try not to come in here when I'm tilting or pissed off at poker...but it really does help.

Online peer to peer support or any kind of support; can be very helpful in times of needs. No matter what the illness.

So...when you feel the need to go play poker...just IM someone and talk to them. No need to tell them about your poker problems, feel free to talk to them about anything. Point here is to try to take your mind away from playing Poker for the time being. Good Luck!

[Talking Poker]

This is ok, provided you have stopped playing. But if you are recommending IMing someone and not concentrating on the game you are playing in, I don't think I really like that advice so much.

I will say againm if you don't have the self control to shake it off, stop playing - at least until you are able to sit back down with a clear head.

[Reel Deal]

Umm, why not? Works for me.

[lightfungus]

Go play at play money tables, or like .01/.02 and blow a couple buyins maniacally. Stick it to the man!

Is anyone else as bad as I am at sucking out on people? Is that just a skill some people acquire? Because try as I might, I just don't seem to have what it takes to be one of the greats...

[Dodoubled]

This is fast becoming a Dr. Phil thread ...

[Talking Poker]

I'm bad at it too. And here's why:

In order to suck out a lot, you need to get your money in with the worst of it a lot. I don't do that very often, and I'll wager that you don't either.

[GTDawg]

I don't suck out a lot because I make sure I put my money in with the best hand.

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If you go on tilt, you either need to focus on breaking that habit or do something else. Keep yourself to playing the top-15 hands or so for a while. just sit back and take some deep breaths instead of getting back in and trying to win your money back.

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I used to have a terrible problem that I would lose my money after becoming big stack. I would double up or win a big pot early and then slowly piss it away trying to play bully. Then, I'd get upset and start throwing my money at the other players.

Consistency is the key.

[Dodoubled]

Ditto. I'm probably one of the worst big-stack players I know. I get some chips in front of me and start playing hands I wouldn't dream of playing with less chips, and I start playing Nelson to everyone else's Ralph Wiggum. I think the key to consistency is discipline, and it's just as easy to lose discipline when you have a big stack as it is to lose it when you have a small stack and/or go on tilt.

[BDMK]

lemme offer my puny 2 cents on this issue:

i decided to tackle the matter of discipline/self-control BEFORE i started playing poker.

so, about a year ago, when i decided id learn the rules of NLHE and indulge in it, i went to my local best buy and got a cheapo, but decent, poker sim software, and started plugging at it in all kinds of setups and situations.

particularly, i practiced with a short stack, after intentionally dropping a chunk of my chips early on in a simulated tourney. precisely to learn not to tilt and control myself.

after a couple of months of the above, i felt comfortable enough to slowly start playing online against other, real, ppl.

[JDMcNugent7]

Tilting is something every poker player goes through - and i think us younger ones are more likely to tilt than the older wiser ones.

I really couldnt figure out how to stop tilting either - UNTIL i realized how much freakin Easier it is to win when ur not tilting. Then i thought- wow - I've wasted tons of $ going on tilt.

Seriously do Not let urself go on tilt for a month. Everytime u are about to tilt Make urself stop playing. After awhile its a habit NOT to tilt - rather than to tilt.

[Dodoubled]

I think I've discovered a great solution if you feel you are going on tilt. It's called CASHING OUT. It's amazing. Early this morning, man, I couldn't catch anything -- preflop or flop. I couldn't have caught a cold if I were standing in freezing water. Seriously, I looked like Manny Ramirez out in left. My shitty cards were catching even shittier flops. I couldn't even bluff them; they were THAT bad. I nearly got blinded out of a 25NL game.
Anyhow, just when I thought the wires were coming loose, BAM! ... I cashed it all out. Now, instead of some jabroni having my money, I have my money.

Brilliant, Einstein. Brilliant.

[MAYHEM45]

Yeah what he said. AS SOON as you feel hot under the collar, shutter down, and go grab some beers or do whatever un-poker related.

BTW, this 6max challenge is making me alot more drunk than normal.