The Tilt Room

Tilting refers to how a poker player drastically changes game style because of bad beat. When a poke player experiences a series of bad beats, he or she goes on tilt by deviating from his or her usual poker strategy or style of playing. Tilting is poor poker play because of frustration at the table.

Aside from bad beats, a long stretch of poor hands can make anyone frustrated and start being impatient and eventually get frustrated and play any card. You might also be ticked off by you being fooled by your opponent’s bluff.

There are several degrees and kinds of tilting in poker. It is not always just going all in with every hand but there are also subtler ways of showing a tilt. You might also single out on an opponent and think that you can out maneuver him or her but you will be risking losing your chips this way.

The most common mistake of someone who is going on tilt is to chase draws. Here you call on a hand even though the odds do not favor you. With these situations, someone who is going on tilt still call even though their usual call would be to fold.

A poker player who is tilting tries to recover the money that has been lost by chasing for potential rake ins. The tendency is to play riskier and put in more money and in the long run mismanage your bankroll. You will be playing on higher stakes which you really cannot afford and you will be putting yourself into losing a lot of money.

A good poker player knows how to manage a tilt and how to offset it, so at the end of the day, they will still end up with some take home money.

The bright lights of the Sin City, the crowd, the chips clicking on the poker tables, the culture of splurge ensures that you will be going home with your wallet empty. Not really. Having fun in Las Vegas does not mean burning all your savings. You just need to know where to go, where to play, and where to have fun.

Softest poker cash games

It will be a bit difficult to pinpoint where the softest poker games are in Las Vegas but going to the following places might help:

• Mandalay Bay – This is a good place to make some money. There are a lot of bad and drunk poker players here.
• MGM Grand –  The casino at MGM Grand is a magnet to tourists because of its proximity to the nightclubs. It is also a good place to play cash games.
• Imperial Palace – There are high rollers here, but go late and you will find intoxicated poker players. You can clean up their stack if you want.

Affordable poker tournaments

If you want to find out how you play in the real world of poker tournaments, you can first try at best value poker tournaments in these places:

• Mirage – They have a twenty table cardroom that runs an 11am and a 7 pm tournament. The best thing will be their Friday evening poker tournaments which you can get into for $150 giving you 7,500 chips.
• Orleans –  Poker players know that the Orleans has one of the best card rooms in Las Vegas. There are also daily tournaments which you can join for as low as $75.
• CityCenter – Their early afternoon tournament has a buy in of $120 where you get 8,000 chips. This may be the best buy in all of Vegas.

Poker can throw a lot of things in your direction to tip you off your focus. That is simply the bad beat that we don’t want when we are playing some cards.

There is nothing that you can do. Bad beats really come in poker but what is important is how you go over the top of your frustration so that you play your next hand well.

Don’t bite the bait and try to recover the money you unjustly lost by doing stupid moves. You need to keep your head working. You have to get rid of they-win-rags-then-can-win-some-too attitude. You will just end up losing money. Lucky if you lose a few dollars but I got a friend who wasted $10,000 in a matter of six hours because of bad beats and he ended up chasing the money through the session.

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OKAY SO I LIMP UTG+1 WITH ACES RIGHT DONKEY SUPER AGGRO ON THE HIJACK DECIDES TO GO LOCO AND RAISE IT 7BB IN A FREAKING $2/$5 FULL RING SO I REPOP IT to $70 RIGHT HE CALLS WE ARE BOTH DEEP STACKED LIKE $1000+ OK SO THE FLOP IS Jd 10d 7s SO I GET A DANGEROUR FLOP BUT OKAY I BET OUT TO PROTECT MY HAND AND BET $120 HE RAISES ME TO $400 I’M LIKE WTF DOES HE HAVE RIGHT CAN HAVE A SET OR TWO PAIR EVEN THIS DONKEY BUT I DECIDE TO PUT HIM ON LIKE A DIAMOND DRAW OR KING QUEEN OR SOMETHING YOU KNOW SO I THINK LET’S JUST CALL THE RAISE HERE AND CHECK RAISE ALL-IN ON THE TURN IF A BLANK HITS RIGHT SO I JUST CALL AND THE TURN IS A KING OF SPADES WHICH IS A GOOD CARD FOR ME AS ONLY Q9 MAKES A STRAIGHT BUT HE CANT HAVE THAT WITH THE PREFLOP ACTION LIKE THAT RIGHT SO I CHECK HE BETS $400 AGAIN I MOVE IN HE CALLS AND SHOWS KING JACK.

OMG ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME HOW CAN THIS DONKEY PLAY THIS SO BAD WHAT A DONKEY OMG I WANTED TO SLAP HIM IN THE FACE BUT THE VENETIAN POKER ROOM STAFF DOESNT LIKE VIOLENCE THEY ARE PUSSIES.

Funny stuff. Eli Elezra makes a squeezeplay that goes wrong, Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson gets Eli to make a huge mistake – and Daniel saves ten grand.

OMFG I was playing a $2/$5 game at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas like a couple days ago and I’m so sure something was fishy there. One hand says it all. I’m holding P3’s and decide to limp into the pot in late position alright? Five people see a flop which puts $27 in the middle, and the flop comes AJ3. Sick beautifulness WOOPPAAAA!

Everyone checks to me and I bet out, $20. One Belgian guy who I later found has a poker blog called Sven’s Tight Poker Tips calls my bet and we see the turn which comes a seven. Still no draws out there, and Sven checks to me. I bet out $55 into a $67 pot, and get called again. The pot is now up to $177 which was good for me as I wanted to be able to move about $120 at the end anyway.

The river hits another seven, a great card for me — especially when all of a sudden Sven bets out $180. Beautiful, right? I shove after him, and he instacalls flipping over A7.

WHAAT? Nigga I was cruising, and he hit running sevens to beat my boat. Sickness. He was all apologetic afterwards, but wtf I’m so sure the dealer was in on this…….. SICKNESS.

Isn’t Gavin Smith a great guy? Here he is talking to Kimberly Lansing about his WPT table back in April last year… I am such a World Poker Tour fan…

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COME ON MAN WHAT THE FFFFFF IS THIS?

Full Tilt Poker – No Limit Hold’em Cash Game – $1/$2 Blinds – 9 Players

SB: $239.50
BB: $280.15
Hero (UTG): $200.00
UTG+1: $38.00
MP1: $164.30
MP2: $282.30
MP3: $194.05
CO: $220.40
BTN: $239.05

Preflop: Hero is dealt A Q (9 Players)
Hero raises to $8.00, UTG+1 folds, MP1 calls $8.00, MP2 calls $8.00, 4 folds, BB calls $6.00

Flop: ($33) 2 A A (4 Players)
BB checks, Hero bets $26.00, MP1 folds, MP2 calls $26.00, BB folds

Turn: ($85) 2 (2 Players)
Hero bets $62.00, MP2 calls $62.00

River: ($209) A (2 Players)
Hero bets all-in for $104.00, MP2 calls $104.00

Pot Size: $417.00 ($3 Rake)

MP2 had 2.2 (four of a kind, Twos) and LOST (-$200.00)
Hero had A.Q (four of a kind, Aces) and WON (+$215.00)

What a joke. Online Poker is RIGGED.

Full Tilt Poker Game #10344305412: $27,500 Guarantee (78111918), Table 18 – 12000/24000 Ante 3000 – No Limit Hold’em – 20:17:02 ET – 2009/01/30
Seat 1: westcoast fish (1,868,836)
Seat 2: QueenV (303,864)
Seat 6: jonna10 (1,134,072)
Seat 9: Gucci1979 (887,228)
westcoast fish antes 3,000
QueenV antes 3,000
jonna10 antes 3,000
Gucci1979 antes 3,000
jonna10 posts the small blind of 12,000
Gucci1979 posts the big blind of 24,000
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
westcoast fish folds
QueenV folds
jonna10 calls 12,000
Gucci1979 checks
*** FLOP *** [Qc 4d 5s]
jonna10 checks
Gucci1979 bets 60,000
jonna10 calls 60,000
*** TURN *** [Qc 4d 5s] [5c]
jonna10 checks
Gucci1979 bets 180,000
jonna10 calls 180,000
*** RIVER *** [Qc 4d 5s 5c] [8s]
jonna10 checks
Gucci1979 checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Gucci1979 shows [4s 3d] two pair, Fives and Fours
jonna10 shows [8c Ah] two pair, Eights and Fives
jonna10 wins the pot (540,000) with two pair, Eights and Fives
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 540,000 | Rake 0
Board: [Qc 4d 5s 5c 8s]
Seat 1: westcoast fish folded before the Flop
Seat 2: QueenV (button) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: jonna10 (small blind) showed [8c Ah] and won (540,000) with two pair, Eights and Fives
Seat 9: Gucci1979 (big blind) showed [4s 3d] and lost with two pair, Fives and Fours

Railing this hand I felt like these two must have both been complete donkaments. HOW COME I’M NOT IN THERE FFS.

OKAY WAS PLAYING A LOW STAKES LIVE GAME YESTERDAY – $1/$2 NO LIMIT HOLD’EM RIGHT? OKAY SO I HAVE 45 of CLUBS AND NOBODY RAISES SO I’M ON THE BUTTON AND I RAISE IT TO 6. I GET 3 CALLERS, AND GET EXCELLENT FLOP.

Ac Kc 8c

I DECIDE TO PLAY IT AGGR AND BET AS IF I HAVE AN ACE BUT NO CLUB RIGHT, THEY CHECK, I BET 14 AND GET ONE CALLER.

TURN = BLANK.

HE CHECKS, I BET 49 (yes), AND GET A CALL.

RIVER: 3c

HE CHECKS, I CHECK. HE SHOWS Ah9c.

WAW THEY PLAY SO BAD AND THEY GET SO LUCKY.

HE CALLS ME WITH THE 9c AND THEN DECIDES NOT TO BET IT? ASSDONKS!