Tilt - O - Rama

[AlienBoy]

I'm tilting. At least, I've *been* tilting. Maybe I'm on permatilt.

But I'm tilting.


How did I get here? After being up, and playing solid, I've slid down over the last few weeks, down beyond where I ever thought I'd be.

My roll is replenishable, but I'm half way to the point I promised myself I'd quit.


Here's an example session (live 4/8 Hustler):


Start at a table with some fairly tight people and one or two fish. Don't get cards, and when I do I get sucked out on - am down $300 or so (1.5 hours). Move to another table, and play a good tight game and get back the $300, plus another $300 (2 hours). Now, with $600 in front of me I make no progress for about 2 hours. It is now 3AM, and now it all starts to go away. By 7AM I bust out and leave.

At 4am I thought I should leave - but didn't. The game was still pretty juicy and I thought I still had money to make.


But in reality, I started to tilt around 2 AM. Just slightly, then progressively tilting more and more, making more and bigger mistakes. The biggest mistake being not standing up and walking.


In another example, 2 tabling 1/2NL on Party - up $1200 in 2 hours. Next two hours? Poof.




The pattern:


Play strong, make money, then tilt it all away.




Unfortunately, I am now far behind, having tilted away much more than I've won.


My plan is to take a break and come up with a new game plan.


Thoughts for the plan:


1) Maybe limit all sessions to 4 hours?

2) Only take $500 with me to a casino, and never ever go to the ATM.

Not sure what else.



What do you do to combat tilt? How do you recognize that you're tilting? Do you just stand up?

Thoughts?

Thanks for your input.


AB