*Seriously* What causes people to go on tilt ?

[Sam Odom]

I know I've done it many times , mostly in my youth. All sorts of gambling.

Just got out of Greek's poker room and this guy lost a 1000.00 easily in 30 mins. I only got 150+/-

He was drawing with 5.6 suited after a 4x raise

But back to the title........ Is it a mental/emotional flaw that causes us to do this?

[Hotdiggity11]

1. People playing with money they can't lose and happen to lose a big pot thus needing to quickly chase.


2. Naturally overemotional and thus can't handle the pressure of poker.

[konck]

Mostly I think the player is tired sometimes drunk or both.

[Fiasco]

I tilt more when I'm tired

but tilt is essentially just a lack of emotional control

[Sam Odom]

Not just limited to poker altho "tilt" is a poker term

[WhatAboutMeBitch]

the desire to be rich FAST

[Sam Odom]

I would be willing to bet this guy I'm speaking about had the Chi Bears tonight... Chasing ?

[Team Ramrod]

I tilt more online than in person. hands down

[wisky]

Booze and pressure of losing what you can not lose would be my answer.

[landers781]

I believe tilt is linked to the competitive nature most gamblers tend to have. They can't stand to lose. I know if I am having a bad night, I wanna beat the house.

[Mr. Peepers]

Greed, Greed, and oh yeah, GREED

[tltaylor89]

I was that guy in the poker room

[Sam Odom]

taylor , did you really believe you would catch the str-flush ?

[Chi_archie]

sweeeeeeeeeeeet emotions

[tltaylor89]

LOL Sam I dont know who that degnerate was but I leave the table after losing 100.

[tltaylor89]

That guy sounded like easy money biting with those low percentage hands

[Sam Odom]

That guy sounded like easy money biting with those low percentage hands

My 'luck' is that I NEVER have a playable hand when I'm at a table with a guy on tilt.

[keyboarding]

Tilt is gambling depression that isn't depressing enough to stop you from gambling.

[reno cool]

being pissed about losing, duh.

[ZetaPsi808]

does The Greek sportsbook offer online poker games for real money?

[jjgold]

I think a lot of the times is chasing loses and the bettor cannot accept he lost and wants the money back. I would day guys that go on tilt a lot are very competitive people or chasing money they need for other things other than gambling.

[Willie Bee]

*Seriously* What causes people to go on tilt ?

Complete lack of discipline and the utter lack of the notion of responsibility, no doubt the result of either coming from the shallow end of the gene pool or bad parents that never instilled any discipline or self-control in their own children. At least that's the way I see it.

[Lockitup1x]

Looking for consolation in the "here and now" rather than "the long run".

[reno cool]

easy Willie. Not many gamblers that never tilt.
lockitup and jj are right on. At least jj's 1st sentence

[illmatick]

clippers, knicks, and the mavs

[Mr. Peepers]

greed greed greed

[poker_dummy101]

depending on the stack sizes and positions at the table calling 56s to a 4x raise preflop isnt bad

[G's pks]

My list of being an SBR loser... first of all I do not play cards so this check list to be an SBR loser applies to sports...but I am sure it works for cards too.

1. Being young Young guys always think they are smarter than the book

2. Thinking you will be able to just gamble and quickly make a lot of money Money is made by slowly removing it week by week from the book

3. chasing (the main killer)

4. Tailing other losers....see lots of this on sbr...love when they get upset tailing!

5. Not being able to use any form of money management

6. Not knowing the sport you bet on...love the guys betting the early ncaa games that do not know a player on either team..

7. Losing streaks

8. Never researching any stats or injury reports (Do your homework)

9. Trying to make a name by throwing out lock picks and losing

10. Or the guy who wins over the short run (like the king) in a tournament but when betting real money gets so stressed out he cannot pick a winner if you paid him! Oh he does want to get paid now too!!!

[tltaylor89]

Chase the money

[wal66]

Sam, there is this lil switch that goes off after you take one bad beat or lose a game you completely thought you had in the bag. That switch is connected to the ego and runs downward to our common sense mechanism. When this switch is triggered it tells the brain "ok that sucked but I'm better than this and to prove it watch this." as soon as that happens we lose all sense of reason and we start attacking just to prove to ourselves we can win. That is what we are thinking but in actuallity we are further punnishing ourselves because deep down we like the abuse not for abussive purposes but from what the abuse delivers to us. The highs we get when winning are incredible but difficult by most standards to come by. The lows we get from losing are equally as powerful and much much easier to sustain. I realize this is getting into the human psyche but this is what happens. This is not a character flaw, in fact some might suggest not having it is the real flaw because it takes a very roboticlike emotionaless personality. The way the mind works is extremely facinating but very complex as well. The way a degenerates mind works is very basic though, their mind simply needs the rush, be it winning or losing the fix is all the same, as long as they can feed the need they really aren't in control or aware of which way it is going until it all done and over.

[jjgold]

Good post Wally

A very competitive person goes on tilt more than a non competitive person.