[MickyB]

Fluffy, on Nov 1 2009, 11:55 PM, said:

This also happens to me at bridge. I get on tilt after "badbeats" like opponents passing a reverse and scoring +110. And I cannot help it.

Anyone knows of techniques to control yourself on this circumstances?

Not so much a technique, but a mindset - that bad actions sometimes work, you will have bad boards due to bad luck or mistakes on your part, and that all you can do is keep doing what you know is right and keep taking percentage actions.

I play a fair few tables of online poker at once, so I can see a lot of hands in a short space of time, and I can tell you that I'd rather get my money in good and lose than get it in bad and suck out. The amount of money from one hand is less relevant than the indication that I'm playing well and hope to do well in future. This may be in part due to it being fairly early days for me in terms of playing NLHE cashgames (I've played 165k hands or so) and I'm still working out just how good I am at it.

[pirate22]

All games are about "Concentration" "Stamina" and being relaxed,
natural ability is a valuable asset,i know of wooden tops,that pay vast sums of money,to have the "Ego" trip,and never make the grade,
you either have these attributes naturally,you inherit the certain genes.
regards

[P_Marlowe]

Fluffy, on Nov 1 2009, 05:55 PM, said:

I have been suking at poker latelly, but last night I finally stayed for a long tourney to the last 30/600

I was running in the top10 all the time, but then I losed 40% my chips to a maniac with J8 who went all in preflop against my AQ. Losing by getting an 8 on the river made it even worse.

I tried to remain focused, but 5 hands later I was giving away the rest of my average stack on a hopeless bluff against a set O_o

This also happens to me at bridge. I get on tilt after "badbeats" like opponents passing a reverse and scoring +110. And I cannot help it.

Anyone knows of techniques to control yourself on this circumstances?

Experience.

If you play more, you see more, and you also learn to know the truth,
that one can trust the probability, but that even a high winning propapility
does not mean you actually win.

In your head you know the truth, but you need to know this truth also in
your heart, and this takes time.

With kind regards
Marlowe