Tilt Prevention Suggestions

[jstill]

are those things really more important??? now whos the donkey

[fresherthanflynt]

Understand where tilt comes from, and losing hands is part of the game. As long as you play the hand well, in the long run tell yourself as long as you do +EV moves - you will win... it's all about understanding it i guess.

[Mik1w]

stress ball, only 300FPPs

[Blizzardbaum]

Tell yourself that if you are a 90% favorite you will lose 10% of the time. Beats happen. You are never entitled to win. You never have a winning hand until all the cards are dealt or until your opponent folds.

Let me give you an example of a hand I played last night at 1/2 NL. Hero is BB with AQo. Lets just say everyone has $200.

UTG raises to $7, 3 folds, button calls, SB folds, Hero calls.

Flop ($22): KhTxJx
Hero bets $15 (with the absolute effing nuts), UTG calls, Button folds.
Turn ($52): KhTxJx(3h)
Hero checks, UTG bets $25, Hero raises to $100, UTG calls.
River ($252): KhTxJx(3h)(8h).
Hero bets $78 all-in, UTG calls.

Hero shows AQo for A high str8; UTG shows Qh6h for flush.

ugh. rather than get pissed, I thank Party Poker for bringing players like this in, and I hope to play this guy or another guy like him again soon.

[brettbrettr]

After a hand I look back and try to figure out if I was ahead when most of money was going in. If so, I'm happy. If not, not so much....

[CallMeIshmael]

Paging Kurosh. Kurosh please report to this thread.

[kurosh]

Nothing prevents my tilt. The only thing I can do is have a maximum loss through disabling instacash and putting nearly my entire bankroll in a savings account.

[pokergrader]

I just look at the graph of the last time I tilted badly, and think of all the things I could have bought with that 50 BB.

Then I don't tilt or close the tables.

[Reef]

pr0n

[Etric]

Call the person who stole your pot a fish or donkey and then proceed to 3bet bluff, c/r bluff, etc until you've gotten your money back.