TPE Theory: Life Coaching for Poker Players with theginger45 (Part 4)
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Concepts In This Video: Dealing with emotion and Tilt • Dealing with Success & Failure • game selection • Motivation • Theory
Douggyfr3sh
Refreshing series! Thank you for tackling this Matt. One thing I would like to discuss- on your slide about “tilt as a choice” you mention that we “don’t tilt when we win through variance.” I think this is completely false. As Tommy Angelo says, there are 3 things that cause tilt: winning,losing, and breaking even. While it may be far less likely for the average poker player to tilt after hitting a one outer than to tilt in the opposite situation, I still think this is a bit of a blanket statement and is incorrect. I personally feel I am more prone to tilt when I make a mistake. Getting sucked out on isn’t a big deal but if I make a terrible play it tilts me- maybe even if I hit my 3 outer it would still bother me and I would be thinking about the mistake for several orbits. It’s going to be different for every individual and winning tilt can be a major problem for some. On another point, I really like the way you discuss processing emotions rather than suppressing them. Making that change has helped my mental game enormously and has allowed me to grind longer sessions more painlessly. Thanks again for this fresh content!
theginger45
Thanks for the feedback! I suppose I should have clarified that I define tilt the same way Jared Tendler does – as anger-based emotions – rather than simply “anything that involves not playing your A-game” the way Tommy Angelo does. Tommy’s work has been hugely helpful to me in my career, but I find his definition of tilt somewhat reductive. I think you’d agree that nobody out there gets angry as a gut reaction when they suck out on someone.