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What I'll do on occasion is just get up and walk away. I realize that
alot of people feel they can't do this in a poker tournament, because
you will continue to lose money to the blinds. The way I see it though
is even if I blind off half my stack, that's only half of what I would
have lost to the TILT monster. When I take my little breaks, I tend to
focus my thoughts on the blinds, and how many blinds I have left in my
stack or will likely have when I return. If I'm shortstacked, I'll
consider the hands that I'll look for when I return that I be looking
to shove all in with. If that doesn't cool me off, I'll think about
something totally poker unrelated, like what I want for dinner, or
maybe play a game of Grand Theft Auto or Call of Duty, Black, etc.
Those games are some great ways to release aggression.If I'm
playing on online tournament when this happens, I'll often click the
sit out button and come here to the forum to post something. I try to
post something positive and constructive, and not write anything about
the bad beat I just took, because the idea is to get my mind off the
bad beat, not to stew in it and get myself steamed all over again.A
tactic I'll use when I don't want to leave the table is a little trick
I learned from Phil Gordon. I simply pretend that it was me who just
hit that lucky little suckout and I just took down the big pot. As I'm
daydreaming about what I'm going to do with my winnings, I'll do alot
of folding, because I want to protect all those chips I just won!
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