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Message: [QUOTE="STL FAN, post: 2524134, member: 120788"] Hope all is going well and nice to meet you. Well wishes for the upcoming holidays and New Year; I hope your new year brings success and happiness. I am no Zen master but I am working on tilt this stems from the back end of my game. I have never taught poker but have two coaches who are also friends. I see and understand your post being on the student side, understanding how much commitment it takes to help someone; and the commitment needed from the student as well. Reading two books about the mental game, how the thinking about certain aspects of poker, and how my brain actually perceived what was going on. Overconfidence from thinking I was solely responsible for my winning and blaming outside sources when getting beat. Just from this tilt can form. Having a feeling of being invisible at the table can turn good emotion into bad because a person will try and keep this feeling. The player will start to play without thought, and expect to win or they unconsciously pull back so they will not lose. When variance starts then accumulation tilt will start as well; a buildup emotion from accumulating beats and then blaming outside sources as the reason. The player then will chase loses trying to bank a win to relieve the feeling of getting beat. However, winning is only a temporary fix and emotion will return when any loss shows up. I have experienced this and am currently working on improving this weakness. This could be why the player seems to have moved away from what is being taught, they started playing unlike themselves because they were not themselves. This will help with understanding in which you observed your friend playing outside of what was taught to them. For example, revenge tilt could explain why they were calling out of position and three barreling opponents; to get back at a specific opponent or the game itself. They now feel entitled to winning because of their perception of their skill against a specific opponent or their perception of how they mastered the game poker. These thoughts turn into bad decisions and mistakes follow that show up in the back end of any players game. Ego and emotion are killers in poker because they get assigned in error to why good or bad things happen when playing the game because most do not understand how they can derail our game or take our focus away when playing well. I am currently writing down my tilt triggers and making a mental model of my game. Recognizing the triggers that start tilt I know can prevent further tilt or snap myself back into my optimal game. Just saying this does not mean it is in control or that it is fixed by writing things down. This is just a step in a long process of working on my weakness of my game. I am starting to see some improvement because of writing things down and then writing things down after a session. Then cross referencing the information and this helps seeing small improvements. This is important because otherwise I could say this is not working and quit this process without realizing it was actually helping my game. I hope you find the answers that you seek. [/QUOTE]

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