You might be one of the best poker players on the planet but if you have major tilt issues you will most likely end up going broke sooner or later. In this article I will reveal some tips on how to avoid going on poker the tips will hopefully save you some money in the future when you are about to tilt or if you cant avoid completely going on tilt hopefully with the tips you can at least get off the tilt faster.
I suspect that every single player who has played poker for a longer period of time has tilted at some point of their career, some might not even realize they tilted and some might not admit it but it is all the same: everybody who plays lot of poker has tilted.
I define being on tilt simply as not playing your best game. In my opinion you don’t have to be going all in every hand and doing idiotic crazy bluffs to be on tilt, one bad call that you wouldn’t have made otherwise is enough for me to say that you are on tilt.
How to avoid tilting in poker top tips:
1) The moment that you notice you are about to start steaming and are feeling starting to feel even the slightest bit frustrated it is time to get up from the table and go do something else until you are feeling completely calm again.
2) Only play poker when you don’t have any worries or stress. If you are going through some bad things in your life you are much more likely to tilt in poker than you would be if life would be as good as it gets.
3) Exercise regularly. Many of the top poker pros such as Patrik Antonius believe that working out helps them play their A game for a longer period of time and to avoid going on tilt.
4) Don’t play games in which losing hurts. If you are playing in stakes in where losing just couple buyins hurts either financially or emotionally you are much more likely to go on tilt than you were if you were playing in games which losing even 10 or 50 buyins wont harm you.
5) Avoid being aware of how much you are winning or losing. Tilting usually happens when you realize that you are down lot of money, thus it makes sense to avoid knowing how you are doing in the short term.
6) Think about the long term. If you are a winning poker player you should simply ignore the short term fluctuations and focus in the long term and think that in the end you will win all the money – as long as you don’t go on tilt and start playing badly.
How to get off poker tilt:
1) STOP PLAYING RIGHT NOW. This is simply the most important advice I can give you on how to get rid of the tilt. It is extremely hard to get off the tilt while you are the table, that is why the moment you realize you are on tilt you simply have to close the computer and go do something.
