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Message: [QUOTE="ChuckTs, post: 845527, member: 467"] First off I think playing with the smallest % of your bankroll as possible is a great way to both reduce tilt and to allow you to play your best game rather than worry about the stakes. I think you'll be ok with what you're doing now since you're not putting in massive volume (like 10-tabling for hours daily), but I still think playing with a smaller portion of your roll will do wonders for your tilt control. Bankroll management is a function of both the stakes you're playing at [I]and[/I] your comfort level, ie how confident you are at your current stakes and how much your bankroll means to you. I don't know what the money means to you, but in general the more it does, the smaller of a % you should play with. So that's part of 1) for you. The other part would be to simply practice controlling your tilt just like you would practice being more aggressive on the bubble, or tightening up early in the game. If you're the type to quickly make moves and decisions without thinking while you're on tilt, then learn to literally take your hand off the mouse, and take a few slow deep breaths. If that doesn't work, finish the games you're in and don't play any more for the next few hours/rest of the day/however long it takes you to clear your head. Get outside, do some exercise, make lunch, whatever. I used to go apeshit with tilt and still do once in a blue moon. I had to tape a huge "STOP AND THINK" message right under my monitor, but that didn't work too well. Then I taped a 20 bill to remind me what my clicks would result in. Nothing can guarantee you'll actually stop and read that message/see that bill, so what I do now is just take my hand off the mouse and take deep breaths. Kind of resets your brain and lets you think clearly. 2) I think I already answered. 3) Just as much as I spend after a good session. I don't really set an amount of time I'll spend, but I usually just review my sessions until I figure out what I did wrong/could have done better, or until I realize I can't figure out what to do and post it on the forums. 4) It's just like anything; work hard and the results will come. Reading books, discussing in forums, putting in high volume of hands/games, tracking and reviewing your play and just eating up any resource on poker you can find. Cardschat has been the #1 catalyst in my improvement, but reading books and getting a subscription to a coaching site were both huge for me too. I'm by no means a great player or really talented or a mentally strong person for that matter, but hard work and perseverance has brought me great results with poker. Sounds like you're pretty motivated which is great. Never give in to the tilt and variance and I can almost guarantee you'll see success your poker venture. oh, another thing you should look at if you're playing a lot of STTs is an ICM calculator. They're basically essential for a full-time STT player. [/QUOTE]

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