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Before reading, it is advisable to read the following articles beforehand: Emotions - what are they and how to use them to increase earnings in poker?, What is Tilt in Poker? Introduction to the topic.
To defeat your Tilt, you need to find a logical flaw in the prism of perception of what is happening that causes it. Like an investigator investigating a crime, examine all the evidence that could lead you to a trail. This article is a brief overview of the tilt states that poker players experience. It will introduce you to the range of tilt manifestation, because most people do not even know how diverse it can be. In this article there will be only a brief description, and later there will be separate detailed articles about each type of tilt. But for now, try working with it yourself.
1. Tilt "When things are bad"
This Tilt usually appears in lingering downswings and is a manifestation of the accumulated heavy emotions that accompany this period. Being in this tilt, you are devastated at the very beginning of the session. You do not have energy, optimism, faith in success. After the first move, it seems to you that this road is long throughout the session.
2. Tilt "Injustice"
Moves, coolers, insulting losses make us feel that poker is a dishonest and unfair game. It seems to you that someone wins undeservedly, and mathematics treats you unfairly. You begin to believe in the tightness of the RNG, that the streamers of the rooms help, that there are more crossings in a certain room than in others, and in anything that justifies your loss and makes you a victim of the game.
3. Tilt "I hate to lose"
Many players do not know how to adequately treat losses, although they understand that there is a variance. This Tilt manifests itself as a desire to open the bluff of opponents at any cost, God forbid someone will outplay you and make a fool of you. It is better to open up and lose than to sit and think that someone has bluffed you out of the pot and thus towered above you.
4. Tilt "Error"
Very common among game professionals. In this tilt, the player perceives the mistakes made too sharply, is self-flagellating and curses himself for making a mistake. Introduces himself into the rank of unworthy after a mistake and believes that luck will no longer favor him in this session, since he cannot cope with such situations. The reason for tilt is a misconception of the learning process.
5. Tilt "I owe"
Here, on the contrary, the player believes that he is simply obliged to win for one reason or another - he believes that poker or room is his debtor, that variance is his debtor and he must necessarily be lucky, otherwise it will be an “injustice”.
6. Tilt "Revenge"
Disrespect to you, aggression against you and other reasons can cause a desire to administer justice against a particular player at the table. This can be one-time emotions or a long confrontation with some haters from the poker community. The desire to prove something to a certain player.
7. Tilt "Despair"
A strong deep depressed state like a swamp of pain and emotions dominates over you, you want to recoup at all costs and climb higher limits or play long sessions to definitely recoup. This state is comparable to depression, when you are constantly in it and are ready for desperate actions, break contracts with yourself or with other people.
8. Exploration of tilt in itself
Immediately after you feel the manifestation of the emotions or thoughts described above, write down anywhere what thoughts accompany this state, what feelings do you feel, what happened before you found yourself in this state? Maybe something happened before you even sat down to play? Write down all the information about the tilt that you find (by the way, this can be done not only in poker, but also in life situations for the purpose of self-diagnosis). At first, self-diagnosis can be quite a challenging activity for the mind if you don't have any psychological education at all. It would be great if you consulted a specialist. For example, there is an excellent specialist on our website - Sofia.
Working with a psychologist helps to obtain the necessary practical knowledge and skills, including for self-diagnosis in the future, and the transformation of some obsolete concepts of your mind. All really successful people, who are still happy at the same time, constantly change themselves, evaluate their experience and change their behavior and views on life events.
The main keys to self-improvement, which is an integral part of success and this is not only in my opinion:
- The causes of all events, especially recurring ones, that happen to us are in ourselves.
- It is necessary to find conflicting patterns of perception of life, people, events that prevent you from being in an optimal psychological mood that leads to success in any activity.
- Having a teacher, psychologist, mentor is great! (if not necessary)
9. Creating a new logic
There are 4 stages:
- Recognition:
It is necessary to keep detailed records of how titit is manifested in order to learn to recognize tilt states as quickly as possible during the session. Once you learn to feel the approach of tilt, it will be easier for you to block it in advance. - Creating a new logic.
When you recognize which logical line in your mind (view of events, belief, angle of view) causes you to Tilt, rethink it, create a better logic in which the Tilt is already illogical. Write yourself this phrase somewhere where you can read it several times a day. But remember, this should be the logic you believe in! The mind works solely through faith, if you yourself do not believe in what you read or write - it is useless. - Preparation:
Each time before the start of the session, reconsider the characterization of your tilt and the new logic that should replace the outdated views, and learn to recognize the appearance of tilt at an early stage. - Evaluation:
Analyze and evaluate how good your psychological state was during the session. Try to give honest ratings and make notes, which is the hardest thing for you to deal with.
Examples of creating new logic
Here are some examples of the train of thought of players at each stage:
Recognition.
I feel a strong anger when the fish on some terrible cards collects two pair and kills my aces. What kind of tilt is this? I feel a sense of injustice, an emotion of anger and hatred for the fish. I believe that he should not have won and he was just lucky, and I'm a loser.
Creating a new logic.
I consider the fish lucky, and myself a loser. Isn't it lucky to be able to play for money with such minus players? Now he is lucky, but I understand perfectly well that thanks to people like him, this profession exists, and I have the opportunity to learn how to make money playing cards from home. They are our best friends - they are sponsors of the entire industry. If they could not run over the aces on their garbage hand, and how would the strongest always win in chess - would they want to return and constantly donate their money to the game? They would get bored of it very quickly. And therefore, it is quite natural for them to lose in a certain % of cases laid down by mathematics. And there is no injustice in that. That's right and that's exactly what makes poker so appealing.
“I should be glad that there are such players and thank them for such a hobby as playing poker without proper education.”
Thank you! Yes, now you have sucked me - but, thank you, I want to play with you further! Come again! Thus, you have reconsidered your views on this event and put the fish not as a tormentor, but on the contrary as a benefactor. And with this attitude, if you sincerely believe it, it will be easier for you to play and win!
Preparation:
It is necessary to make a brief thesis description of the new logic in order to gradually change your perception of these situations to a new one. “Fish are philanthropists in the poker world, people who are building the industry I work in! Let them be happy, and their moves are an important part of the game - let them sometimes be against me!” Then you repeat this phrase all the time before the game, and during the game, if you experience negative emotions from moving fish.
Evaluation.
At the end of the session, you evaluate whether it was easier for you than before to treat these events during the game. If after long attempts you fail, then you have not found the root of the conflicting belief in your perception of the game, in your psychology, and you should look for something else. There is always a reason and there is nothing that cannot be transformed! We live in a magical time of inner transformation!
10. Features of the new century
Once I saw a sad quote in one of the social networks - “We live too late to explore the earth, and too early to explore space! I want to add to this phrase! “We live in a magical time, the best time to explore our inner world, our soul! It's as vast a universe as the cosmos!” And for the profession of a professional player, this is also a big deal!
