Everyone who plays poker knows about tilt. You get a bad run of cards or you get a bad beat and soon after you get away from how you play normally. I've lost many bankrolls to this in several occasions, 3 to be exact. I must say it feels awful to lose your entire bankroll to tilt. All your weeks/months/years of hard work, all the time invested in playing at your favorite online poker site can go down the drain in a matter of minutes.

I am going to give you an example of how I usually go on tilt. First, I will start at my usual .05/.10 cent Omaha hi ring game. I put in $2 and lose it either from a bad run or bad beat. I put in another $2 to try to break even. Again, I go bust. Now, I put in $5, then $10 and the result is the same. At this point, I am steaming and will go out of my normal limits to .25/.50 Omaha hi. Here is my downfall. I soon go from .25/.50 cent Omaha hi to $1/$2 Omaha hi and proceed to put my entire bankroll in. Of course, I lose everything and ended up wondering what went wrong.

My first mistake from the example above was that I kept on playing after I lost a total of $20.  Try to put a cap on how much you've lost when you play. Mine is $20. Now when I lose $20, I immediately stop playing and say to myself "tomorrow will be another day." My second mistake was when I moved out of my normal limits to .25/.50 and $1/$2 Omaha hi. Never go beyond your normal limits to try to break even. You get out of your comfort zone when you move up and also, the competition level goes up, which can spell bad things to come.

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