[xmanpike]

http://www.texasholdem-king.com/hold...php?article=15

These tips are not rocket science, but if you utilize them, it should help to keep you from going on tilt.

First off, what does "going on tilt" mean? Let's say you are playing a good game, and you are dealt two aces. The flop comes A / Q / 7, and you are feeling pretty good about your hand so you bet out. The turn is a 4, and the river is a 5. You still feel good about your cards, and have aggressively bet. When your opponent flips his cards over, you see that he has a 2 and a 3, and hit his straight on the turn and the river. That's a bad beat, and that can cause you to go on tilt. Going on tilt means, you start aggressively betting any hand, just because you are so frustrated with a bad beat. Let's say you were playing tight the whole game, had a bad beat, and all of a sudden started raising with 2/7 offsuit because you were so pissed off. That means you are on tilt, and will probably be out of the game in a few hands.

Identifying people who are on tilt can be a great moneymaker. Odds are they have a weak hand, and are just betting anything because they are so frustrated. If someone is on tilt and is betting wildly, odds are that they will lose if you take them to a showdown with a decent pair of hole cards. This can be a great way to build up your stack. You might catch an unlucky break sometimes, but the odds are in your favor.

Avoiding tilt. If you suffer a bad beat, fold your next bunch of hands unless it is absolutely a premium hand. If you are playing at home, go to the fridge and get a drink. Just do anything to calm yourself down. If you are at a land-based casino, get yourself a drink from the waitress and focus on the activity inside the casino; this will calm you down and allow you to keep more of your stack. The worst thing you can do, which is what a lot of people do, is start betting wildly; good players will see you on are tilt, and take your stack in no time.

[W4ll4by]

thx for this i realy need this cause i just lost 300bucks=) just hope that i can win a freeroll and start playing again cause it sucks not having any money in your account. I never deposit cause you can loose the money so easy.

[nxtyear]

great post, i needed that as well
there's just wayy too many bad beats that i can't handle it anymore
hopefully i'll avoid going on tilt from now on

[W4ll4by]

haha nice to see im not the only one in this forum that tilts alot=).

[mikie_113]

you definitly aren't, the feeling one gets, when you are all in preflop with your money hand you've been waiting for all night ; going allin to someone holding 77. and watching them hit a 7 on the river.

I don't think anyone can avoid tilt in some situations; but for me.... i do usually do what you said. go to the fridge, grab a drink... and ease out. Spotting a tilt player is very simple; when you see a guy hit a bad beat who was a massive chip leader. You know he'lll call anything you raise. For example; just last week i was nearly shortstack in the table and after getting rags all night, i got pocket 2s.. so i called preflop; only to be raised half my stack my the big ogre with everyones chips. Anyways, i went over the top putting him on 2 face cards and my pocket 2's holding up. He calls my all in.. i was right, he had AJ; and i won the hand. My allin plus the blinds that were already in that hand put me in first place in that table. The guy goes right to the chat
"you F**KER! pocket 2's! what the hell is wrong with you. youll pay"

so, i just reply with a LOL. and watch this guy going bezerk. Right then, my next hand was AQ. To my self, i honestly would rather have folded this hand right then and there because i knew exactly what the outcome was going to be. This guy, who has just a few chips less than be; nice and tilted up right where i want him... in the chat; i said somthing like
"go allin you tilt maniac"
and of course, he does go allin preflop. even though, i had this disgusting fealing in my gut telling me not to call it, there was no way i was going to laydown AQ to this guy on tilt. And i was right about one thing, he had nothing. Shows J7 preflop. But... the cards didn't go my way. Little bastard flopped a boat, not only that... he had fun ranting about how he was the best poker player and i sucked and didn't know how to play.

i was pissed as hell, not because of how i lost.. but to who. So, i went into a money table and played some good old tilt poker

(i ended up loosing everything on my account)

[katymaty]

everyone has had their fair share of bad beats. u really have to forget it and stick to your game tactics. the upside to bad beat is if u get a good hand straight after a bad beat and go all in u r more likely to get called cos they think u will be on tilt

[BadAndy]

Tilt is half of what you said, the other half is going crazy about how much money you just lost. If you lose $300, you feel like an idiot (unless you played it to the best of your ability) When i am on tilt, i go sit in my hot tub and relax!

[mikeychips22]

The only way to aviod tilt is to think of the movie Anger Managment just think Goose Frba and all your evil thoughts go away =)

[Arjonius]

Originally Posted by katymaty

everyone has had their fair share of bad beats.

It's probably not what you meant, but actually, good players suffer more bad beats than poor ones. Let's say you play 100 hands where you're an 80 percent favorite. On average, you're going to suffer 20 bad beats. That part is the same for everyone. So is the opposite; when you're the underdog, you'll suck out 20 times, giving your opponent 20 bad beats.

Where the difference occurs is that good players aren't in these situations an equal number of times. For instance, in the same amount of time that a good player is ahead 80-20 100 times, he or she might be behind 20-80 only 25 times. On average, that works out to suffering 20 bad beats while handing out only five.

That doesn't make you the unluckiest player on the face of the planet because you take four bad beats for every one you hand out. It makes you a better player than your competition, one who won 85 out of those 125 hands.

[pookyman]

I wish I could say it never happens, but I am an intense player, I don't make a lot of bad calls, or bets, and I don't make a lot of bad plays. When I lose to an especially bad play, I am not a happy camper. My best defense is to get up and walk away from the table. Sit out a hand or two.