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Message: [QUOTE="Cesum Pec, post: 5270911, member: 402036"] I was playing in Orange City, FL, and someone highly engaged in a convo that I was not really paying attention to said something like, "no one plays poker because they want to lose money." I should have kept my mouth shut, but I'm not really all that smart. Of course there are players who want to lose money. We've all seen them. There are players so tilted they announce for all to hear that they have the worst luck of anyone who ever played the game. I can almost guarantee that player will soon go bust on a draw. Even if he gets lucky and doubles up, he will probably still go bust. The problem for the tilter is that he has announced he is unlucky. Because he wants to be right more than he wants to win, he must prove to the table just how unlucky he is by losing. About an hour later, one of the people that had been in that convo lost a big hand, went on tilt, and announced he had the worst luck. He lost another big draw hand and said something like, "See, I told you I have no luck!" And then another player foolishly reminded Mr Tilt about the prior conversation on players who want to lose. Mr. Tilt looked embarrassed, paused to think, then packed up his few remaining chips and went home. What do I do when tilting? Take a long walk around the parking lot. Call a friend or family member while I'm walking and talk about anything other than poker. I'll often do this after a bad beat just in case I don't realize the tilt is coming. If that doesn't fix my head, I'll take a week, sometimes 2 weeks off from poker. Since I only play live cash, and the nearest room is 45 minutes from home, it is easy to take a break. While I'm on break I'll read poker books on my shelf. I'll also try to do a deep analysis on the big hands that I lost, or won without really deserving to, to figure out where I was going wrong with lazy reads or bad technique. [/QUOTE]

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