August 08, 2012
The hardest villain to play against....
TILT.
Simply put, tilt. I remember starting off playing online poker tilting like it was nobody's business. I'd load a few bucks and grind the SNG's and MTT's. Sometimes I would hit a big score (for me) and would then transition over to the cash tables or maybe even play bigger SNG's only to lose my whole roll. Then, it was just rinse and repeat. It was a vicious cycle, but I still had those dreams of making it big and ballin at life. Then something happened, I discovered DC/DTB/2+2.
From there on, I constantly worked on controlling my tilt issues. I studied the game more as I felt one of the best ways in controlling tilt was getting a better understanding of how the game worked. It definitely helps knowing that a hand was just a cooler/standard and moving on instead of going crazy and blowing up in the chat box. From there, things slowly started to progress. I went 3+ years without having to reload once and cashed out thousands. Maybe small change for some, but I felt that I had finally started making progress. Then of course everything shuts down and I was left with a decision.
For me, I decided to take a while off and just focus on other things. My career, my relationships, etc. When I did come back to poker, it seemed that I had taken a giant leap backwards. I have made quite a few deposits, nothing huge, grinded up to a few hundred bucks and then boom, gone. I did this time and time again. Finally, I told myself "this is your last deposit, make it count." Now, I'm just a couple buy-ins from moving up to $50NL. Do I still tilt? A little. I have my moments. However, it's the way that I'm trying to handle those moments to prevent me from losing what I have worked so hard for.
So there it is. There's my opinion on the toughest villain at the table.
7 Comments:
shuttle posted on August 08, 2012 at 21:26 PM
nice post.
zooroaster posted on August 08, 2012 at 23:36 PM
GL Kreative...hopefully myself and others here can follow your lead.
Skooongie posted on August 09, 2012 at 04:55 AM
i like it
kReATivE posted on August 09, 2012 at 18:41 PM
Thanks guys. I definitely am excited to move up. Hopefully, I can keep the forward momentum going and will be posting shortly about my shot at $100NL! :)
MayContainNuts posted on August 10, 2012 at 04:38 AM
If you moved up to $50nl and did not look at your graphs, session results or cashier for a whole year do you think you would be a better player at the end of that year than if you did look at them?
kReATivE posted on August 10, 2012 at 17:18 PM
I seriously don't know what you mean MayContain. You have out-levelled me. :)
iamavibe posted on August 17, 2012 at 09:02 AM
maycontainnuts, I ask myself that question often. On principle I don't look at my profit or losses while playing at all, and try decide before looking at my profit or loss for a sesh wether I played well or badly. I tried doing this for an entire week, would log into poker room, sit down and have auto buy in/reload on, so I never actually looked at my roll. It was hard, but pretty awesome, you learn how to take every hand as it is, without thinking "fuck im down 3 bi, im gonna c/j here with fd and hope to bink" (or whatever). Nice post Kreative.
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