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Monday 24 June 2013

How to "quick" fix your tilt problems

Okay, so many of us have had some or even more problems with tilting - bad players take our money even if we were ahead, or then we played bad and got angry. Anyway, tilt is a problem and can make a winning player to be BE player. And in a down-swing it can be bye bye for your BR. Here's some tips how to generally prevent on from losing whole roll and to slow-down tilt. Of course, only true solution is to try to find the cause for your anger..


1. DON'T BUY mental game of poker - yet
If you want to have some solution to your problems, you should start by reading Pokerstartegy's articles about psychology and one should watch their vids. They are really +EV. Of course, if they are not helping you and you still feel frustrating or so and you want to become a pro, try The Mental Game of Poker.

2. In game you might not see when the tilt exactly comes. You should do session reviews afterwards - list up hands where you played bad and where villain played bad (beated you though he was behind when ye went AI). Sometimes you feel some heat watching them, but you have to understand deeply that they can't win buy playing bad. And when you pick up your own bad play you can just laugh and take a note about it. You should also think why you played that way and could it be the reason for your anger.

3. Have a game plan, stick to it!
Having a clear plan helps you a lot in your game and should reduce your bad play a lot. One must consider the context of the table and your own relative hand-strength. Are you going to bet that table - is it bet/3bet, bet/call or perhaps bet/fold? You could also consider check/folding from time to time so you won't end up in to bad situations. You should also have plan for certain turn cards - are you still ahead, why are you betting? Bluff or value? Does that card hit our range? It's always good to give yourself good explanations about what you do or do not. When you have a game plan and you stick to it you should build up some confidence and you are controlling your own nerves a lot better.

4. Tilt Breaker +EV for hot heads.
If you are really going to play as a Pro or semi-pro, and you can't fix your tilt for now, you can buy bandage called Tilt Breaker. It prevents you from doing bigger speww and to lose too much money. One should think about a bigger situation than NL4 when playing. In NL4 losing 10 BI in tilts might be just a one-day salary or less, but go to NL100 and tilt 10BI.. That affects you huge mentally!

Hopefully you people had some help here if ye had problems with tilt. Pokerstrategy.com is also a good community to use for your problems - there's plenty of mental coaches such as J. Tendler and that Swedish guy (sorry, can't remember your name :d) that are likely to help you with your questions here.