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| AVOIDING TILT |
Going on tilt, is a phrase used to describe a player that is playing badly (usually over aggressively) out of frustration. Normally, one of three things, or a combination of these things, will cause a player to tilt. These three things, in the order of most common first, are 1. A bad beat. 2. Another player, verbally or otherwise, ridiculing the tilting player. And 3. Frustration or boredom caused by a lack of good cards or profit. When we actually break down these reasons for tilting though, it becomes apparent how irrational it actually is to go on tilt in the said situations.
The first reason, a bad beat, is when an opponent makes a bad play against you, or you make a great play against your opponent, and you are the clear mathematical favourite to win the hand, only for the hand to be lost due to against the odds luck. The instinctive reaction of the loosing player tends to be to curse their luck, and become angry with the opposing player for making a bad play. "what were you doing playing/calling with those" is an often heard phrase at the poker table. When you look at the situation logically though, we can see that this reaction is clearly wrong for two reasons. Let's use the example that you've flopped a straight with two hearts on the board. You raise, and your opponent calls, so you think (correctly), that he might be on a flush draw.. The turn card is a blank, (it doesn't help either of you), so you decide to take the pot down right here with your straight by pushing all in. The current pot size is 30 big blinds, and your raise is 86 big blinds. Your opponent now has a 4 to 1 chance of hitting a flush, but if he calls the 86 big blind bet, he'll only win 1.35 times his money if he wins. So for every 5 times that he makes this call, it'll cost him 430 big blinds, and he'll win once, returning him 202 big blinds. It's simply not a good call for him to make. For the sake of this example though, he does make the call, hits a heart on the river, and wins the pot. Now you curse your luck, admonish him for his bad call, and get frustrated and stop playing your optimum game (go on tilt). The facts are though, firstly, he's going to hit his heart one time out of five. It makes no sense for you to be content and continue playing as if nothing had happened on the four occasions out of five that he doesn't hit his heart, only to get angry the one time that he does. You should be just as content on the time that he hits a heart as you are on the four times that he doesn't, because the overriding fact is, he's a poor player making poor calls, and you'll win alot more from him than you'll loose in the long run. This should please you whatever the result of the individual hand. The second reason that this reaction is wrong, is because you've openly told him that he's made a bad call, and may have either educated him enough to stop him from doing it again, or embarrassed him enough to stop him from doing it again. Either way, you've cost yourself money by doing this.. The basic thought process that you should always have to stop yourself from going on tilt in these situations, is to simply say in your own head, thanks for making that stupid call. You may have got lucky this time, but please keep doing that :). The tilt reaction is totally counter productive. | 
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| The second most popular reason for tilting, is opponents ridiculing you at the table. If this is happening, you only really have to ask yourself one question. Why is he doing this? 99% of the time it will be for one of two reasons. Either you're playing well and he's trying to talk you off your game, or you're playing badly, and as in the example above, he's stupid enough to tell you. If it's because you're playing badly, listen to the criticism, smile, and thank the person for helping you, then play better. He'll soon regret opening his big mouth. If on the other hand it's because you're playing well, just smile to yourself while you're taking down another pot. Whatever way, reacting by going on tilt isn't the answer is it. |
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The third reason for tilting, and to be honest, the most common for me, is boredom/impatience. If i start off playing good, solid, tight, aggressive poker, and i don't get a decent hand for quite some time, i sometimes start thinking that i should start playing trash hands, in order to bluff people off of pots and win some money. The problem is that i very rarely do end up winning money by doing this. There was a reason that i started off playing tight aggressive, and that's because it works. Playing trash games usually doesn't. And therein lies the solution. Whenever you get bored and frustrated by a lack of good cards and profit, and are tempted to tilt just a little, just remind yourself why you're playing the way you are in the first place. Because it works. There is no reason to change it.
Hopefully, by following these logical thought patterns, we can stop ourselves from tilting, and more consistantly play the best poker that we are capable of. |
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