[bustedromo]

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The big mistake I think some of these young internet poker stars are making is they view poker as a sport, as opposed to an unbounded game with a significant component of chaos.

They seem to seek out competition against certain players because they wish to prove themselves better, or because they perceive that that is how they will become better.

Seems I've read a few anecdotes on these forums of certain players going busto in their obsession to beat certain other players in a quest to prove who's the best.

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Another aspect of the above: tilting against a perceived lesser player because either variance isn't going their way, or, maybe, their perception is wrong.

From Townsend's 8/22/2007 blog:

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Today I played a bit of HUNL. I did really well except for playing one very weak player. When I played some tough competition I did fine but then I played the weakest player I played all day and tilted like crazy. I used to have major tilt problems and I really worked on getting rid of it. But now it seems to have come back especially when I lose a few pots to a player that I view as weaker. I am really going to try and focus on playing well and not letting tilt creep in. Also my stop loss may help with that.

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