Really good post, Guru. It's been a while since I read Tommy. I guess I will again some day (procrastination tilt).
I think that I get over bad beat tilt by reminding myself that I've given a few beats to others myself.
My biggest tilt leaks are due to impairment, Sleepy Tilt and Beer Tilt. I've mostly been playing 1 and 2 table donkaments for the past year. I'll play until after midnight most nights usually with a bottle of
Blue Moon always at the ready. Couple this with having played in a bar tournament earlier and there's quite a bit of beer coursing through the brain box. Decisions that should take some analysis (what's this guy's range here?; hmmm, coordinated board; wait, that's a scary card) are supplanted with gut responses (oh about two-thirds of the pot should work). It's also happened more than once that I fall asleep in my chair during a MTT on a weekend night. How I make the money in those I attribute to some fundamentals that I learned right here in the micros (thanks guys).
During the latter part of last year and early part of this I went on a horrible downswing. Had I not won a $4/180 man tourney in the middle and end of the skid, I would be busto. My
Sharkscope looked like a series of really ugly Ns. In the middle of this skid I moved down in buyin and began questioning my play. I found way too many loose (middle offsuit connectors limped in EP & folded to a raise, playing any two sooted in LP, really stupid bluffs that had no logic to be able to sell to the villain) plays that I had gotten away with previously that started biting me in the ass. I guess that was mostly impatience due to some sense of urgency to act in a donkament that I've since gotten over.
It's funny that I've done pretty well in tournaments yet I suck in ring games. I'm sure that there is an explanation for that here somewhere but I'm too lazy to find it (lazy tilt).