Question about Tilt & BRM

[dyehard]

Right now my mind is wandering all over the place and it is 5am, but I will try to make this somewhat coherent.

Overall, I am a losing online cash player. I feel like this is mostly do to the fact that I rarely can walk away from a small losing session. I feel I have to chase my loses. More times than not, those small losing sessions turn to big losing sessions. Somewhere along the way I go on monkey tilt and play virtually ATC and/or make big bluffs to win big pots. I don't have a huge problem with bank roll management, especially in tournaments, but my cash game tilt doesn't just cause me to play poorly, but it causes me to disregard everything I have ever learned about preserving my bankroll.

Although, my stats show I am a big loser in online cash, I strongly believe that I am profitable in the levels I am comfortable with ($100nl). When I am focused and playing well, I am able to put together what I believe to be 3 or 4 profitable sessions for every 1 losing session. Unfortunately, every once in a while that losing session happens to wipe me out.

If I am on cash game tilt, I simply cannot practice good BRM. However, I feel I am profitable in cash games when I am mentally stable. It is extremely difficult for me to say "no more cash games" when I know I can make money. It's been said, those who want fortune play cash. Those who want fame play tournaments.

I titled this "Question about Tilt & BRM" although I don't think I really have a specific question. I guess I am looking for our great forum base to simply respond with thoughts, personal experience, advice or whatever.

Thanks.

[Asterix1982]

i havent tried this out, but maybe this is for you:

Tilt Breaker - Poker Stop Loss and Bankroll Management Software for Tilt Control

[pillow100]

keep learning and watching videos and posting hands and just the more you learn I find makes you concentrate harder on hands and the better you the more you will condition yourself not to make -ev plays and you will find yourself less and less with this prob

[dyehard]

i havent tried this out, but maybe this is for you:

Tilt Breaker - Poker Stop Loss and Bankroll Management Software for Tilt Control

I just glanced at this product for a second. It looks pretty interesting. I wonder if it would prevent me from playing tournaments after I have hit my stop loss in a cash game. Thanks and I'll take a closer look after I've had some sleep.

keep learning and watching videos and posting hands and just the more you learn I find makes you concentrate harder on hands and the better you the more you will condition yourself not to make -ev plays and you will find yourself less and less with this prob

Learning and studying will always help to improve my game, but no one is impervious from losing sessions. Therefore improving my game won't prevent me from breaking my BRM rules.

[Shoecrew22]

Bluefirepoker.com ?

[ThrillCory90]

Just work on improving your game. Getting a bigger edge is more important than BRM.

[dyehard]

Just work on improving your game. Getting a bigger edge is more important than BRM.

The BRM issue stems from uncontrollable tilt. Uncontrollable tilt stems from anything from bad beats to bad play to standard losses.

I usually don't have BRM issues with tournament money as a result of tilt. Just uncontrollable when it comes to cash.

[Idontplay6s]

stop looking at it as a series of sessions. It is just 1 long life-session of cash games. If you are down a little or a lot, it doesn't matter. Whether you play your next hundred hands now or tomorrow doesn't matter.

[4 to 1 dog]

stop looking at it as a series of sessions. It is just 1 long life-session of cash games. If you are down a little or a lot, it doesn't matter. Whether you play your next hundred hands now or tomorrow doesn't matter.

Very good advice here, and very true.