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Message: [QUOTE="slmick5, post: 411087, member: 11721"] This is not directly in response to the original post, but to anyone in general. I can say this with all honesty.........I do not go on tilt. I do not get mad, and I do not get frustrated. When I get ready to play, whether it's a ring game, sit n go, or mtt, I know at some point the bad beat, the suckout, the donk call is gonna happen. If I know this beforehand, then how can it affect my play afterwards? It's a mindset that you have to get in. Things are gonna happen during the course of a game that you can't control and sometimes those things can be devastating to you and your stack. But like I stated earlier, if you know that it is going to happen, then why get bent when it does. Bottom line is we gamble. Plain and simple. Some gamble more than others. Gambling = bad beats = Tilt. For example, if you were in a casino playing slots would you get bent if you pulled the arm and did't win? What if you pulled it 10 times and didn't win? Is there a guarantee somewhere saying your "suppose" to win? You play your hand the best you can, and if you get wrecked by a "stupid"call then so be it. The law of averages say that given the same scenerio over and over good is going to trump bad. With that being said, if you play the same hand 10 times in a row against the same player your gonna come out ahead in the long run. Even though that fact probably doesn't cushion the immediate blow, it should serve as a building block as to how to deal with tilt in the future. The next time before you get involved with a session go over in your mind all the possibilties that could potentially put you on tilt. Replay those scenarios in your mind, get familar with them cause one or more of them is gonna happen. So when it actually does happen what do you do? Tilt? Of course not, you have already went over it in your mind and expected it at some point to happen. You were already braced for it. I'm not saying that you should go into every game defeated by making yourself believe that your gonna get waxed. I'm saying just know that all hands are not gonna the way you would like them to go, so when one doesn't, don't blame yourself or the other player. Accept it, move one rebuild what you lost, and think about what you learned. [/QUOTE]

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