Deaing with tilt at small stakes
by pkrtiltsme on 01/31/10
So I have a couple of friends both of whom are small stakes winners, both decent players and both who get pretty aggravated when players they consider bad get there. It's a common theme in my aim conversations with them that they either expect to run bad or will criticise in chat those players who have tried to donate and have inadvertenty got there.
Most of us have broken mice, punched walls, thrown stuff kicked the cat* or done other stuff causing us damage when we have lost a key pot at a critical time when holding would have placed us really well for a big score. I was a frequent donator in PLO after busting a tournament looking to play bad run good and recapture the $ ev I had just lost in a key mtt hand. A book resovled this pretty much the first time I picked it up. The book Tommy Angelo's Elements of Poker. Now I am not going to write a review as Foucault has already written a pretty good review on 2p2 but suffice to say this book really did change my approach to dealing with tilt and the primary causes of tilt which in many cases are beats and coolers. If someone plays a hand badly against our range or our hand we make money, we don't want to castigate them, sure we can't spend sklansky $ or g bucks but we can continue to make good decisions
If we are semi serious about making money from poker our goal must be to make decisions that maximise our EV if we break stuff hurt ourselves or our bank roll these are -Ev decisions that hurt us. So stop and get the book read it enjoy it and tilt less.
I do not post in bad beat threads I do not expect to be sucked out on I do not break stuff, sure poker is not a primary source of income but still managing to maintain a state of ambivalence to the
out come of a hand when you have played it well is a pretty significant step forward.
Please do not kick the cat, cats are very fkn cool!
Most of us have broken mice, punched walls, thrown stuff kicked the cat* or done other stuff causing us damage when we have lost a key pot at a critical time when holding would have placed us really well for a big score. I was a frequent donator in PLO after busting a tournament looking to play bad run good and recapture the $ ev I had just lost in a key mtt hand. A book resovled this pretty much the first time I picked it up. The book Tommy Angelo's Elements of Poker. Now I am not going to write a review as Foucault has already written a pretty good review on 2p2 but suffice to say this book really did change my approach to dealing with tilt and the primary causes of tilt which in many cases are beats and coolers. If someone plays a hand badly against our range or our hand we make money, we don't want to castigate them, sure we can't spend sklansky $ or g bucks but we can continue to make good decisions
If we are semi serious about making money from poker our goal must be to make decisions that maximise our EV if we break stuff hurt ourselves or our bank roll these are -Ev decisions that hurt us. So stop and get the book read it enjoy it and tilt less.
I do not post in bad beat threads I do not expect to be sucked out on I do not break stuff, sure poker is not a primary source of income but still managing to maintain a state of ambivalence to the
out come of a hand when you have played it well is a pretty significant step forward.
Please do not kick the cat, cats are very fkn cool!
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