anti-tilt? or something... help?

paiz · #1 08-03-2007, 02:37 AM

This isn't a hand analysis or advice on a specific hand. I need some advice in general -

It's something I like to call anti-tilt. It's when you start a session and you win 1-3BI right off the bat. You're feeling really good, cards are hitting, and then your play goes to crap.

When it happens, it's not like I'm chasing every gutshot I see, I still play odds correctly, I just start doing stupid things. Really stupid things. Like calling down 25BB in a 40BB pot with TT on a AJ946 board thinking villian is definitely bluffing. It's the kind of stuff that, if anybody posted about it, it would be a unanimous FOLD but in my heightened state I call then look like an amateur.

My question to you in the small stakes forum is this : how do I avoid it? Recently I have consciously thought about it while I play but it still seems to happen. It is something I feel is killing my winrate and I'm not sure how to stop. I asked a fellow 2p2 grinder and he suffers from the same thing.

Thanks

Weir · #2 08-03-2007, 03:02 AM

winning 1-3 BI right off the bat?

does not compute

Das Budrick · #3 08-03-2007, 03:14 AM

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winning 1-3 BI right off the bat?

does not compute

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i thnk he means in your first 20-50 hands winning several buy ins

I have this problem, if I make a couple hero calls and win a bunch at the beginning of a session I start to make worse and worse "hero calls" as I keep playing, becoming looser because I keep winning. this only happens to me when I win several buy ins right away. I think its just a discipline thing, that you just cant let yourself loosen up so easily, you need to keep a focused head so to speak. does that make sense?