/ Matthew Pitt / 03 March 2011 / Leave a Comment 
Welcome back gentle reader, I said reader and not readers as there is probably only one of you who will read this, hello mum! Seriously though this penultimate entry will look at how tilt manifests itself into a physical form in way way or another. Whilst I am personally not qualified to go deep into the psychology of these things I have suffered from tilt related problems in the past so I can at least give you my side of the story.
One of the most common ways tilt shows its ugly little head is through increased aggression, though strangely enough I do not think I have ever gone nuts because of tilt but I have seen it in action and you will have too. How many times have you seen someone suffer a bad beat and then go on to open-shove the next five or so hands? Or how often do you see someone slip into the depths of tilt and then come out raising and re-raising everyone at the table. I guess I'm not an aggressive person so this particular tilt trait does not come out at the tables.
The two forms of tilt I suffered from were more passive. I don't know if they have an official name, maybe Jared Tendler can tell us when he stops by at the end of the series, but I can describe them to you anyway. I am going to Christen one of the "CGAF Tilt" because when it takes over me I simply couldn't give a f$&k! This type of tilt still threatens to creep into my game on an almost weekly basis and generally sees me not care about calling off my stack despite everything pointing to the fact I am beaten and usually happens when I have been losing. It's as if my subconscious says to me "you have lost $150, what's $200" and I go along with it! I actually had to force myself to log off the other week when I was $250 or so down because I could see myself donking off my entire profit for the month and probably more besides. It's strange because its almost sado-masacistic in that I am punishing myself, weird!
The second form of tilt I used to encounter frequently will also have a real technical name but I'll call it the "grass is greener" form of tilt. This little monster used to see me stop playing six-max Hold'em and jump into pot limit Omaha games, or begin playing MTTs and only cash in two from my first 50 and start playing SNG instead. The other way it manifests itself in me would be to withdraw my bankroll and move to another site to play instead, despite the fact I know that no site is rigged and that there was no way I was going to give up playing so all it did was prevent me from playing for a day or two until the money hit my bank account or online e-wallet.
I'm sure I have other forms of tilt, or have had other forms of tilt in my game but the last two paragraphs are the ones that I have struggled with, and still continue to have battles with to this day. I'd be interested to know how you tilt or have tilted in the past.
Next up will be how I have overcome the vast majority of my tilt issues and how I recognise the signs that the tilt monster is coming to steal my bankroll!
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Pud On Tilt: Part 1 - Kübler-Ross model
Pud On Tilt: Part 2 - Reasons for Tilting
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