i am sure everyone here has heard the expression "Going on tilt."
I have never gone on tilt, per say, until I figured out the reason. I always said to myself, how can one even go on tilt? Its not that hard to keep your cool, even after a bad beat.
I usually play in live free rolls or internet poker. These are the mediums that never put you on tilt. Live ring games put you on tilt and can do so rather easily. Its one thing to suffer a bad beat on the internet and say to the monitor, "You dip-$hit" and let all your frustrations out there, but when you are sitting face to face with someone and they pull off their miracle, you cant yell at the top of your lungs.
Once in a while I will play ring games for money. I have never experienced tilt before until this play.
Blinds were only 50/$1 but anytime money is involved, it always brings out a more serious aspect of the game.
I am dealt ACE KING and raise it, Everyone calls.
Flop is ACE ACE 6. I bet everyone calls. HUGE POT IN THE MAKING.
Turn is a 8, no flush possibiliites either. River is a JACK.
I bet everyone calls expect someone reraises it at the end and I call.
He is sitting there with Pocket Jacks for the Jacks over Aces boat.
I am sitting there thinking, "What the living hell".
I am not a little hot under the collar and start to play wrecklessly.
I start playing the next 4 hands, all junk, in an attempt to win back that money or hit a miracle flop, or out play them on the flop, who knows what the hell i was doing.
5th hand though, i get 5-6 diamonds. I call and of course it is raised and reraised back to me and i call.
Flop is 4 J Q. only the 4 is a diamond. I check and it is raised and reraised back to me. Turn is a 3 diamonds.
I check and it is raised and reraised back to me. River is a 2 clubs.
I got a straight and the nuts.
I check it is raised and reraised back to me and i reraise it back.
I win a huge hand by suck out and then all my tilt fades away.
Funny thing is the guy who pulled the 2 outer jack Boat had Trip Queens that hand and I said, now you know how it feels.
