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skindzer
Chile5114 Posts
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Slayer91
Ireland23442 Posts
On December 16 2010 11:19 Slithe wrote: Why is it so hard to believe that people can be affected emotionally by things that are beyond their control? It's a very natural response to be unhappy when something unfavorable happens to you, even if are completely aware of its possibility. People do not make a logical choice to go into a rage, they just do. Some people are better than others at rationalizing the situation and dealing with the outcomes logically. Perhaps you are one of those people, so you have a hard time understanding others who are not as good at it. You're choosing to play a game where you are guaranteed to lose lots of money with good decisions and good odds, but if you play well you'll win money overall. If you rage so hard at taking bad beats why would you ever play poker.. Maybe you're right though, even in sc2/bw the worst I get with 10 game or so losing streaks is mouthed//whispered swears and clenched fists or whatever. (I still get pretty angry but I never break anything you just need to calm down a bit). | ||
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meeny
United States40 Posts
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Chef
10810 Posts
I think it's really immature and shows bad character when you get upset over bad beats though. Even though my brother was a winning player (and constantly told me he should be winning a lot more if his stats looked anything like they were supposed to for the length of time he'd played), I'm sure he played worse than he could have without it, and it was really fucking annoying to overhear while I was doing my own work. Anyone who rages over this type of stuff is just a big baby and needs to grow up. That counts for people who rage in SC, and it counts doubly so for people who rage in poker. | ||
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Zlasher
United States9129 Posts
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Liquid`Zephyr
United States996 Posts
On December 16 2010 10:50 Liquid`Drone wrote: you handle it by a) not becoming angry by stuff that is outside your own control and determined by luck (by far preferable, but this option is only possible to pick if you're reasonably calm as a person), b) only playing limits where your bankroll can handle the swings, and c) playing so much that you've literally experienced everything as the first cut is the deepest and eventually you will be numbed. pretty much all 3 of these together unless you're nazgul all else fails if you have a big ego you can find an enormous sense of pride in not tilting. thats what worked for me...its just embarassing -.- | ||
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Seltsam
United States343 Posts
On December 23 2010 09:49 Chef wrote: it counts doubly so for people who rage in poker. I actually disagree there. The reason I don't get frustrated at SC losses is that I can usually attribute it to something I did wrong (unless I'm playing a team game). I usually only get upset if something happened that isn't in my control. In poker, you can do everything right then just lose. To me, that's way more annoying than having a discernible error that can be corrected.  | ||
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Gatsbi
United States1134 Posts
On December 23 2010 15:58 Liquid`Zephyr wrote: pretty much all 3 of these together unless you're nazgul all else fails if you have a big ego you can find an enormous sense of pride in not tilting. thats what worked for me...its just embarassing -.- This is actually really solid advice, pride yourself on not tilting. Feel like you're a fucking badass of poker because you don't tilt. | ||
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Joementum
787 Posts
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Slayer91
Ireland23442 Posts
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Horrde
Canada302 Posts
Eventually I got to be a decent troll with it. I'd normally have his tables off to the side and would watch them for any big pots he'd play. Whenever he got sucked out on, I'd pick the table out and quickly look up the hand history and yell out stuff like "HA!! Stacked the sucker with my J4o!" or "Got another fish all-in pre with my pocket threes! They never learn!" or whatever hand he lost to. Our doors were open so he'd rage pretty hard. He caught on pretty quickly obviously, but it still fueled his tilt rage to no end. | ||
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guN-viCe
United States687 Posts
stop losses and taking breaks are a poker players best friends. bad luck HAS to happen. if it didn't, poker would be rigged. | ||
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HeavOnEarth
United States7087 Posts
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MetalMarine
United States1559 Posts
On December 23 2010 16:46 Joementum wrote: For those people saying "He can't be a pro because he rages" then I have one name for you all: Phil Hellmuth Well Phil Hellmuth is good and a multi-time WSOP champion, andddd he is kind of doing it because the TVs make it seem like its his character. I bet he's just playing along with it for the TV time. He has an ass ton of money, you really think he cares that much? The people who rage and punches walls after a bad beat are probably terrible at just keeping their cool, which is quite important in poker. To the original post, tell your friend to QUIT poker, he's going to probably have a lot of mental issues if he can't control himself. | ||
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Coramoor
Canada455 Posts
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