Ethics of Tilt - live play

[Christmas Steve]

Thank you all for your responses. My instinct is to kill them with kindness, too, so I agree with the "turn the other cheek crowd".

This post was prompted by a story my buddy told me about an experience he had during a tournament at the Bicycle Club in Los Angeles. He was seated next to a very well-known actor, who was being a big-time jerkoff to everyone, especially my friend. My friend thought it was because he was seated to the celebrity's left, and kept raising him out of pots. My friend thought he could have handled it better, and was telling me about the whole thing later that day.

[Mr. Now]

The well-timed barb certainly has it's place.

Often it takes the form of very selectively showing 1 or 2 cards. The Annie Duke show of 1 card to Phil Hellmuth comes to mind. That amounted to pressing a button on the Hellmuth control panel labled 'Tilt' ....which she fully perceived and fully leveraged.

Got to give her very high marks in Psychology for knowing what, when, and how with that player. She definitely took control from that point on to win the entire event.