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I played 2 weeks of solid poker at $25NL and was up 16 buyins. I played 12 hours of monkey tilt poker at $25NL and lost 18 buyins. WTF?!?!?!?!

Tilting when playing online is so dangerous because all of your bankroll is right there, easily accessible and easily dumped onto a table. Time and time again, I build up a bankroll, only to tilt it all away. I am really trying to figure out how to stop doing this and need help.

How do people manage tilt online? For me, tilt is all about anger. I get angry because (a) I play a hand badly and lose money, (b) someone else plays a hand badly and I get sucked out on and lose money, (c) someone else outplays me and I lose money and (d) for various other reasons. Once on tilt, I stop playing poker and instead want to "get back" at whoever has "wronged me", which quickly turns into the entire table - soon it is me against the table and everyone is gunning for me because they know I am on tilt. Queue some more bad beats. INVARIABLY, this is when a string of really bad beats happen - I have used my tilty image to get it in good and some d()che sack sucks out. Now I go on super monkey tilt and start spewing buyins like they are meaningless.

HOW DO YOU AVOID THIS? Is it possible to have such a detached mindset that you never go on tilt? Or do all people, even the most disciplined, detached players, go on tilt at some point?

Once on tilt, it seems the only good thing that you can do is to stop playing. But how do you do it? I'm looking for mental tricks, gimmicks, ANYTHING, to help me control this awful problem. Whether it be some trick to stopping playing or some trick to stopping the tilt, give me your thoughts.

Having looked back at hand histories and graphs, I know that I could be a winning player if I could only control tilt. To me, tilt control is the main difference between winning cashgame players and losing ones.

Suggestions?