[pete fabrizio]

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let's be clear. I think tilt is a part of nearly every massive downswing -- it's almost impossible to take beat after beat, run into bigger hands over and over, lose every race, and still play your absolute best. however, that doesn't mean that a perfect player who never tilted would also never have massive downswings, just that he wouldn't make them worse than they already were.

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Let me take this one step further. I think one of the important ways people "tilt" during a big downswing is that they don't adjust their play for their change in table image. You can't make the same moves against people who see you losing pot after pot, and if you don't adjust you can make things a lot worse than they need to be. So even if you keep your cool and don't start playing like a complete idiot doesn't mean you're out of the woods if you just keep playing your same game.