Tilt

I'm sure every poker player has experienced this at some point in their playing career. You may not even realize you've come across it. It's amazing when you get struck down with it. It's like a disease....comes out of nowhere and sits you on your backside.

I was playing 3 tables the other night, nothing major, just $1/$2 no limit. Anyway, off a $50 deposit I had my balance sitting at $240, all I wanted to do was get to $350 so as I could wire the money out, not to be, the pendulim swung completely the other direction, it was like a virus had just attacked my computer, all 3 tables I started getting pounded. It starts off with a couple of bad beats and ends up with me making dumb ass donkey calls. After I lost the lot (took me about 2-3 hours), I just sat back and said to myself....."What the fark just happened there?" It was like I was someone else.

Are there any antidotes? Well, the best advice I have is to batton down the hatches, try and whether the storm and tighten ya play right up. I can say this now after the sickness has passed, can't say I'm a better man for it.....One thing I can say is; I'm financially worse off for it that's for sure.

Laters.

Dave