Winning Tilt

wierd i actually do the exact same thing. When im up after a few days i start losing motivation and play horrible. When i first deposit im supper motivated and wana grind. After a few days of crushing my limit i lose motivation to grind and/or play my best.

i use 3BI loss get off , 10BI win get off minimum of 30-45min break usually go make a sandwhich watch a tv show or go play some basketball for half hour... seems to work 4 me cus i used to always donk off my winnings a little right before the end of my session.

hopefully tonite will be my first nite back 10NL 6max gunna have to go do some work juuu kno hit me up if ur playin 2nite brett ima pick ur brain cus ive been almost a year of no poker and i need monies so gotta put in work

quit making poker goals that are objective... subjective is the way to go ex.. "i wanna get to 6k" objective , "i wanna beat 200NL" subjective..

making objective goals in a game where u can only play competitively if u take the money aspect out of the equation is dumb. When u get close to ur goal u start thinking about the amount of money u have and not just relaxing using chips playing the game..

standard winning tilt

i couldnt finish reading all of this as it kind of hits a nerve as i have somewhat of the same problem =, so recently i've been using some form of a stop win method

When I cooler kings with my aces the first thing i think of is that sooner or later I'm going to be the guy with the kings .

On February 18 2009 15:45 EvilSky wrote: standard winning tilt

rofl!

<3 all of u guys

yeah i usually quit my sessions after im up a couple buy ins to avoid playing like a fag and protecting winnings. unless the table is super juicy then i force myself to stay.

hmm sometimes i just get up at 10 am, and tell myself to play from 12pm to 5pm. whatever the outcome. (unless i drop like a bitch and start monkey tilting). in 5 hours time you really can put in some hands :D

On February 18 2009 16:36 gororokgororok wrote: hmm sometimes i just get up at 10 am, and tell myself to play from 12pm to 5pm. whatever the outcome. (unless i drop like a bitch and start monkey tilting). in 5 hours time you really can put in some hands :D

yeah I gotta get back to focusing on trying to play more poker and playing my best. Gotta get back into the grind!!!!!!

Just remember why you started playing to begin with, you probably started because you enjoyed it not because you wanted to me $2k in a week. Obviously winning is fun as is learning, but sometime you gotta get back to why you started and forget that it can be a fucking grind.

On February 18 2009 16:44 Pallywhacker wrote: Just remember why you started playing to begin with, you probably started because you enjoyed it not because you wanted to me $2k in a week. Obviously winning is fun as is learning, but sometime you gotta get back to why you started and forget that it can be a fucking grind.

that's really good advice, though my main reason was never fun. But yeah, gotta remember WHY you're doing it and what the long term result is that you're after. focusing on the bigger picture is a huge motivator

I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM. as far as i can remember, i only had really monster months when i just didnt give a fuck about goals, winning and money at all

I have the exact same problem, when im getting near a goal or had a super good run I start to loose my A game and drop like 10 buyins.

I just dont focus on goals anymore, just trying to play my A game and play as much as possible.

the good thing is that I have restricted my play cause I knew I was having this tilt and therefore haven't had an opportunity to tilt spew it off, so that was good. But it would be better to get rid of the feeling and keep grinding like a mad man!

When I tell myself I'm down just a little bit, I seem to concentrate well and such. IE today I was up 4bi but I got stacked early in my session, I would just think to myself, "I'm down just a little bit, just gonna grind a bit longer today". I'm going to experiment with this more