Poker Tip Man Armen: "On Tilt"
Tilted: When a poker player becomes frustrated and let's their emotions take control, resulting in very aggressive poker behavior and ultimately losing their chips. This normally happens after a player gets a very bad beat.
“I went on tilt when I flopped a set of 8’s and lost to a runner, runner one card flush.”
As we all know playing poker has it's ups and downs. Knowing when to stop playing and taking a break, or stopping completely for that session can define your success.
We have all experiance terrible bad beats that makes us go on tilt. Successful poker players have learned to manage their bad beats by dusting themselves off and moving-on to their next hand. Not worrying about the bad beat they just had and leaving it in the past. It takes a lot of self control to overcome your natural chemical reactions that take place in your brain. It takes experience and confidence in your skills to overcome the tilt.
I have come to a point where no longer let bad beats wear me down. I understand that it's part of the game and I continue playing my odds. I tell myself “It's ok, since the bad beat already happened...it probably won't happen again for sometime. Moving forward, the odds of winning are going to work in my favor as long as I get my chips-in while I'm way ahead.” I put a positive spin on it.
For poker players that can't deal with bad beats and go on tilt, I suggest first to learn to recognize as soon as you start tilting. As soon as you feel the the blood rush to your head, just step away and go get some fresh air or coffee. If you still can't get over it, time to get-up and leave. If you choose to keep playing while you're frustrated it will only compound your losses.
Recognizing when other players are tilting can help you capitalize on the the situation. One particular scenario is called steaming; when a player goes on tilt and and starts betting aggressively. This is also known as the steam bet. The steam bet usually comes right after the bad beat hand that set them on tilt. If you happen to be in the hand with the steaming player, just hope you hit something because you're going to get paid-off.
Poker is a game of patience, you need to let the game come to you. Don't lose your composure, play the odds and the player.
Play Hard, Play Smart and Do Not Tilt
This is called the gamblers fallacy. Its completely untrue. Independent events bruh. Once again, proof that this poster has no clue. (posted from a gimmick account because this user has whale friends that flag anyone who disagrees with him)
That's what works for me to avoid the tilt. You should let the readers know your strategy for not tilting. Try to leave out what you have read about poker and write what you have experienced. As far as this gimmick stuff, you need to drop your gimmick. I bet you're great at poker but suck at chess. Thanks for your imput, looks like you got two fans.
I doubt anything "works for you" because its clear from the content of your posts that you aren't a successful or knowledgable poker player.
Your incoherent response shows this, as do the numerous conceptual errors in your posts. As do your posts praising Chris Ferguson and FTP.
As to my strategy for not tilting, I don't have one because one isnt necessary. Its not a real issue for me, and its not a real issue for most winning players that I have met.
People who think tilt is a real issue are people like you -- unsuccessful recreational players with very little experience, and a bunch of general knowledge and platitudes they copied out of a beginners poker book.
Maybe one day we all can be as great as you. Till then I'll continue to post original text. Thanks for taking your valuable time to chime-in.
Your content is plagairzed, not original. Hopefulkly, honest users will continue to flag it, as it takes away value from this platform.
funny, i was thinking the same thing, just without the oxy.
And y eah, its bad, plagarized content, because you stole it mostly from out of date beginners books and videos. Youve figured out that if you steal information so general as to be effectively useless to everyone, you can defend yourself from accusations of plagarism by claiming that what youre writing is so common knowledge that everyone knows it.
Just like the n early identical wording between phil gordons book and your post on the rule of 2 and 4. Lame, stolen garbage
This authors content is not good right. It's full of spelling mistakes and grammar errors. It's clear that the whales upvoting the content either aren't actually reading it or don't care about the quality. Whatever the case, we can't really do anything about it because of the actual whale size and I am afraid of getting maliciously downvoted. Something I am afraid of with this guy's posts is that down the line there could be a situation similar to patent trolling. This person could write enough articles to 'cover ' most of the concepts. Then if anyone new comes in and tries to write better articles on the same topics, the whales will come along and downvote due to 'plagiarising'. If it's the case that the whales are planning this kind of thing then I'm sure this plan would be being worked on all over the platform. I do not think very highly of complexring, kushed or steemed. They seem like absolute scumbags who will twist public opinion in their favour to make more money.
So it's bad, plagiarized content...hummmm, sounds like an oxymoron.
The initial content could be bad already, I don't quite understand how it could be an oxymoron.
I have limited knowledge of Poker however I do take your points that patience is a virtue, knowing when to quit and how to control your emotions would be fundamentally important.
I think a mistake people make when trying to control their tilt is to try and control their emotions. Conscious emotional control is unnatural and can often make your longterm health worse. Emotions are a natural effect of us being put into different scenarios and are the result of how we deal with these scenarios, if the thought behind the emotion isn't resolved the emotion will often linger behind the scenes and eventually transform into a mood, we don't want that. Simply trying to control the emotion and willing yourself to not be tilted doesn't work as this method doesn't resolve the thought behind the emotion and will allow that emotion to fester and produce unwanted moods and even eventually character traits if left there for too long.
When you are on tilt it is also the best time to recognise which skills or concepts you have/know that haven't been learned to an unconscious level. If you can handle it, making a note( while on tilt ) of some of those things that you can see that you struggle with is a very valuable thing to do. This whole process stems from the concepts of the inchworm and winning more by losing less.
Great input, thanks. I guess you can try to continue playing and try to learn from you ways while you are tilting, but I wouldn't recommend playing on tilt.