1 MAY 07
In honor of the day and the title of this post, I was thinking about tilt. For once, acknowledging tilt saved me money. I was playing last night and got up early at a 10/20 table featuring a couple regulars in the 50/100 game. You can be sure there will be many multi-way capped pots, and they didn’t let me down. I played good, solid poker and let the cards do the work until two consecutive opponents won big pots with the exact same hand.
9 4 off-suit.
I turned to LV, a regular and also active duty Army (like me) and remarked how I donked away a bunch of chips the last time morons sucked out like that. I noted that I failed to adjust my strategy for the table-tilt, and I vowed I wouldn’t do it again.
I walked away up a buy-in.
How can it be that the pros don’t tilt? Surely that’s what separates the men from the boys,* right?
It turns out, even Daniel Negreanu goes on tilt.
* You know how they are always talking about what separates the men from the boys? I’ll tell you what separates the men from the boys. The sodomy laws. – George Carlin
Editors Note: Apparently, the Card Player link died when Daniel put up a new post. Here is a link to the same tilt-related post on his FCP website. Sorry, but it may not be accessible from your work computer. I sure can’t get it on mine, so I’m posting this from home.
3 comments:
Pros tilt. They just recognize it and adjust accordingly. Sometimes that adjustment means leaving for the day and finding a nice toilet to flush your head down. :)
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Linky doesn't work?
Thanks. Try the new link now. It's at the bottom of the post.
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