For whatever
reason. Tilt is ugly and we can blame the bad attitudes and foul people at the tables, right? NOT!!
You can be
short tempered at the tables. Have bad hair days. You can have relationship challenges and even have lots of health issues
and still play your best ever, right? NOT!! Your health is always a biggie. If you have lots of serious health issues, your
whole life is encompassed in them. Your just not yourself when your like this. So how can you play your best! Being tired,
hurting, or on medications. These things all lend credence to not being on your "A" game thus inviting little things to enter
into your head causing those bad seeds to be sowed. Then a few seeds come along. Pretty soon, as in the power of numbers,
one will sprout and add a little weight to one or the other side of your thinking, unbalancing that pinball machine we call
our brains. "TILT" is emminant!
But we don't
recognize it soon enough. We just continue on and lose hands we should have never been in. We get to out thinking ourselves.
We start justifying things like saying, "this hand just has to hit" and "I was dealt a big slick three hands in
a row and lost the other two times so I'm all in"! BAM!! Your blown off the table with not a bad beat like people would
say but bad logic.
There is an
array of things that can play a part of the tilt makeup! It takes 2 days to develope a bad habit. Can take
up to 30 days to correct. This analagy can be directly applied to poker. Just a couple setbacks, whatever they may be, if
introduced into your play in any way, shape or form can kill a good run. You will stay on that streak until you recognize
what you need to do to turn it. That's where you need to basically start from scratch again. You need to build confidence.
You need to be a winner. You have to do whatever it takes to allow you to leave every table you play on, a winner. You have
to leave with more than you started.
You just need
a confidence boost and right now to get that, you got to leave a table with more than you started with! Simple as I can put
it! I can't say that enough. I have to drill that in. Repetition breeds confidence.
I absolutely
do not mean you need to go back to the same tables you have been playing.In fact, that does more harm than good. To
repair a glitch in the subconcious play poker mode we put ourselves in, we have to recognize we are on tilt! For whatever
reason. Tilt is ugly and can blame the bad attitudes and foulf people at the tables. You can be short tempered
at the tables. There is an array of things can are part of the tilt makeup! It takes 2 days to develope a bad habit. Can
take up to 30 days to correct. This analagy can be directly applied to poker. Just a couple setbacks, whatever they may be,
if introduced into your play in any way, shape or form can kill a good run. You will stay on that streak until you recognize
what you need to do to turn it. That's where you need to basically start from scratch again. You need to build confidence.
You need to be a winner. You have to do whatever it takes to allow you to leave every table you play on, a winner. You have
to leave with more than you started.
The best way to do this is to go to real low pot limit or no
limit play chip tables if that's your focus. If it's real money, go to a .01/.02 limit table if you can find one. If not,
pot limit or no limit will work. Your skill set is so far above that level already. That's the point! It's kind of like
stacking the deck. Still not a gaurantee but you have increased the odds to your advantage in all ways possible. Recognizing
a problem in play and taking the first step to turning the events around takes baby steps. To turn the chain of events you
always have to pick a basic starting point. That same principal is pertinant in all aspects of life.
