Things it took me a while to learn, Part 11, Time and Tilt Management

[Sherman]

Good Stuff Bond. I don't want to derail the thread, however there is some research on Catharsis that I think many poker players will find interesting.

For those who don't know, Catharsis is the idea that if you have pent up aggression you should let it out (e.g. hit a punching bag). In short, the research shows that Catharsis actually INCREASES anger rather than decrease it. If you want to know more you can check out this paper:

Bushman, B.J. (2002). Does Venting Anger Fee or Extinguish the Flame? Catharsis, Rumination, Distraction, Anger, and Aggressive Responding. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 724-731.

Sherman

[DontRaiseMeBro]

is it important to wear a suit when playing online?

[Qar]

I played around 40 MTT's with no cashes at all. That was also tough. Lost like 30% of the roll even though I more or less used the 100 x buy-in rule. Just wondering...what kind of cold streaks others have had?

Bond, thanks for the post, elite stuff as usual.

[McMelchior]

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If you want to know more you can check out this paper:

Bushman, B.J. (2002). Does Venting Anger Fee or Extinguish the Flame? Catharsis, Rumination, Distraction, Anger, and Aggressive Responding. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 724-731.

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Hey Sherman, there's a $25 charge to access that paper online ... can't you at least post the abstract, please?

[Sherman]

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If you want to know more you can check out this paper:

Bushman, B.J. (2002). Does Venting Anger Fee or Extinguish the Flame? Catharsis, Rumination, Distraction, Anger, and Aggressive Responding. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 724-731.

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Hey Sherman, there's a $25 charge to access that paper online ... can't you at least post the abstract, please?

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LOL. Go to his website. Do a google for Brad J. Bushman. Go to his homepage. Look at his selected articles. The article is in there among many others. You can download it for free.

Screw it. Here is his selected publications page. It is about 3/4ths of the way down.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bbushman/pubs.htm

[kenny7]

Thankyou Bond,quality as always.

Luckily for me,I'm not really prone to tilt,I keep my emotions under control(most of the time)and accept variance for what it is.

What I'm taking away from this is more the dicipline you have and that I need. The amount of hours you put in and the fact that you basically sit infront of your pc all that time without slacking off I find pretty impressive. I do OK playing live for hours on end,but online I find I have a hard time consentrating for that long of a time. Definately something I need to improve on,if anyone has any advice,I'd be happy to hear it.

Finally,I was just wondering,what kind of tournaments/buy-ins are you primarily playing(online that is)?

[McMelchior]

Thanks, Sherman [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Bond18]

Kenny,

I'm playing everything from $25 FO's to the 1k FO's and 100r. Depends how much of a BR nit i'm feeling like that day.