Preventing tilt from success

[questions]

Not sure if this is the right place for this topic:

We all know the feeling of going on tilt when having lost a big pot or two. But I notice a pattern in my play, when I've succeeded in taking down a series of healthy pots, [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] I tend to go on tilt, altering my play by taking bigger risks because of thinking that my past success will continue, when of course, variance inevitably rears its ugly head. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Does this happen to you? If so, how do you prevent yourself from getting carried away? Thanks.

[Vegetarian]

Thats just weird.

[Theo_Brixton]

Success? What's that?

[Body Man D]

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Success? What's that?

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loooooooooool

[thunderbolt]

I find playing 12 tables keeps me from going to far off from my game plan. When I play live and they wont let me play more than one table I tend to do that. What do I do to get away from playing donkshow poker? Get up and take a walk....think about what your gameplan is and stick to it.

BREAKS ARE KEY. WE ALL NEED BREAKS.

[Renton]

positilt is just as dangerous as negatilt

[questions]

"positilt". Yep that's exactly it. How to stay focused and balanced in the face of variance that's been happening IN YOUR FAVOR. Because as with negative variance, positive variance can make you look at the game irrationally. In other words, 'im killing this game because im so good and can play Jack six offsuit in the face of aggression and still win.'

[Jurrr]

I get positilted as well. It's never J6o, more like opening 87s UTG as I believe a cbet will take it down and if not then a 2nd barrell will.

And Renton's right, it's just as dangerous.

[Robin Donks]

I almost never negatilt. Positilt is what eats up my winrate though. Funnily enough no one ever mentions it. I wish someone with a lot of experience posted a long article on this in psychology section.