Tilting !

celticbhoy

'The Mindset of a Pub Tournament Player' was a very interesting read.

But my question to the board is have you ever said or done anything deliberately to set someone off on a Tilt?

I was playing on PokerRoom on my lunch break in a play money table ages ago. My handle was celticbhoy11 (I think). I was nearly chip leader at the time when some guy said
“Celtic are ****e”
in the chat window. Now I don’t really support celtic but I have been using the celticbhoy handle since about 1997 so I use it for nearly everything.

I wasn’t aware of it at he time but I went on a massive Tilt and every time the villain bet I called and he sucked me right in!! I lost everything in a matter of minutes and it dawned on me that it was pure deliberate on the villains behalf. :eek:

I have noticed banter and speech play at MTT and pub tourneys where there would be a slant or a criticism of play or a person. This obviously sets someone off on a Tilt again and they keep calling the villain, and more often than not, loose.

Sometimes when faced with a really really aggressive player I tend to tilt. I hate when someone always Always raises preflop with nothing. Most of the time just robbing blinds… but when reraised a little they fold. It seems only when I call and reraise the maniac he has nuts or something…. (Im getting off the point… The mere thought of it is making me tilt again…) :mad:

So have any of you at any stage made a deliberate jibe or do something to make someone tilt (even once) ???

5starpool

I am never rude or offensive (deliberately) to set anyone on tilt, I like to play the game in the spirit it should be, but if I can tilt a poor player using some aspect of play then I will. If people are that transparent and playing with their heart on their sleeve then it is a lesson they need to learn.

Constantly raising one players big blind is one way to do this, but you have to be aware of others at your table before you do this with primarily one player in mind.

I didn't put that too well I think, but hopefully you get the gist.

Norwich Fan Rob

dont mention the dreaded T word.

(how can u tilt on a "play" money table)

(next time im playing dominic i must try the old Liverpool are sh*te routine )

5starpool

Norwich Fan Rob wrote:

(next time im playing dominic i must try the old Liverpool are sh*te routine )

Dammit, you have found my weakness. I am at tilt in work now, just lost my cup of water in a silly bet. Damn.

Iago

once or twice, here's a couple of hands I posted a few months back about one player who I got on tilt for over an hour before he left the table. Took nearly $400 off him in less than two hours, most of it from these two hands...

FullTiltPoker Game #229308659: Table Brush - $0.50/$1 - No Limit Hold'em - 11:43:24 ET - 2005/09/24
Seat 1: Mowgli ($30)
Seat 2: vern27 ($158.95)
Seat 3: rar1955 ($33.60)
Seat 4: golly ($437.85)
Seat 5: Bake_Rubles ($59.70)
Seat 6: Gymani ($98.90), is sitting out
Seat 7: eatatdans ($93.50)
Seat 8: uwannalaf ($247)
Seat 9: izgubicu ($125.05)
Bake_Rubles posts the small blind of $0.50
eatatdans posts the big blind of $1
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to golly [9h Tc]
uwannalaf calls $1
izgubicu folds
Mowgli folds
vern27 folds
rar1955 calls $1
golly calls $1
Bake_Rubles folds
eatatdans checks
*** FLOP *** [9c Ks Th]
eatatdans checks
uwannalaf bets $1
rar1955 folds
golly raises to $6
eatatdans folds
uwannalaf calls $5
*** TURN *** [9c Ks Th] [4d]
uwannalaf bets $1
golly raises to $15
uwannalaf calls $14
*** RIVER *** [9c Ks Th 4d] [Ts]
uwannalaf bets $225, and is all in
golly calls $225
*** SHOW DOWN ***
uwannalaf shows (three of a kind, Tens)
golly shows [9h Tc] (a full house, Tens full of Nines)
golly wins the pot ($493.50) with a full house, Tens full of Nines
uwannalaf is sitting out
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $496.50 | Rake $3
Board: [9c Ks Th 4d Ts]
Seat 1: Mowgli didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: vern27 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: rar1955 folded on the Flop
Seat 4: golly (button) showed [9h Tc] and won ($493.50) with a full house, Tens full of Nines
Seat 5: Bake_Rubles (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: Gymani is sitting out
Seat 7: eatatdans (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 8: uwannalaf showed and lost with three of a kind, Tens
Seat 9: izgubicu didn't bet (folded)



FullTiltPoker Game #229313589: Table Brush - $0.50/$1 - No Limit Hold'em - 11:50:59 ET - 2005/09/24
Seat 1: Mowgli ($24)
Seat 2: vern27 ($145.65)
Seat 3: DeeIronChef ($38)
Seat 4: golly ($681.85)
Seat 5: Bake_Rubles ($68.15)
Seat 6: Gymani ($98.90)
Seat 7: eatatdans ($95.15)
Seat 8: uwannalaf ($104.85)
Seat 9: izgubicu ($129.50)
Bake_Rubles posts the small blind of $0.50
Gymani has 5 seconds left to act
Gymani posts the big blind of $1
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to golly [Ks Kd]
eatatdans folds
uwannalaf raises to $3.50
izgubicu folds
Mowgli folds
vern27 folds
DeeIronChef folds
izgubicu stands up
golly raises to $60
Bake_Rubles folds
mfager adds $30
Gymani folds
uwannalaf raises to $104.85, and is all in
golly calls $44.85
uwannalaf shows [Jd Js]
golly shows [Ks Kd]
*** FLOP *** [4d 3c 8c]
*** TURN *** [4d 3c 8c] [8s]
*** RIVER *** [4d 3c 8c 8s] [2s]
uwannalaf shows two pair, Jacks and Eights
golly shows two pair, Kings and Eights
golly wins the pot ($208.20) with two pair, Kings and Eights
uwannalaf is sitting out
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $211.20 | Rake $3
Board: [4d 3c 8c 8s 2s]
Seat 1: Mowgli didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: vern27 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: DeeIronChef didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: golly (button) showed [Ks Kd] and won ($208.20) with two pair, Kings and Eights
Seat 5: Bake_Rubles (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: Gymani (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 7: eatatdans didn't bet (folded)
Seat 8: uwannalaf showed [Jd Js] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Eights
Seat 9: izgubicu didn't bet (folded)

5starpool

With a fiver in the pot you bet $60!!!!! You must have been confident he would go all in thinking you were being an idiot. Some overbet though.

Iago

I knew he'd call, he had been abusing me in chat for the previous 20 minutes, everything from my questionable parentage, to my sexual preferences, to the favours I was providing for the full tilt staff

Once he raised I knew he'd push over any raise I made!!

roryc

I havent tilted in months... until today. I think I know what caused it.



It seems that anytime I see this it clicks the tilt button in my head, and within minutes all my chips are gone...

ianmc38

I tilted off $300 in 15 minutes last night. See the bad beat thread for the reason. The guy then started talking smack. i bought back in for €200 and pushed for the full amount when he raised. I flopped the nut flush draw, no pair nothing. he had an overpair and I lost my mind.

I'm starting to get way too tilty in online cash games of late. Seriously damaging my net profit.

ionapaul

roryc wrote:

I havent tilted in months... until today. I think I know what caused it.



It seems that anytime I see this it clicks the tilt button in my head, and within minutes all my chips are gone...

Rory, you need to stay away from online poker I think! I think some people are more suited to one medium than another, and it seems to me you are definitely a better player live than online.

I wouldn't go on tilt much (I don't play cash games so that helps), but occasionally would run into a thoroughly dislikeable character in tournament play and have it in my mind to bide my time and 'get 'em!' - this might later involve pushing my luck and occasionally getting into trouble doing so...

roryc

Agreed. Its all rigged anyway...

ianmc38

roryc wrote:

Agreed. Its all rigged anyway...

Excatly my sentiments.

pokypoky

I usually like to freak players out with weird questions. If they think I'm weird they generally conclude that I'm a crap player, which may be true but thats beside the point. One of my favourites is to ask them how much they have left if I'm reraised, it always freaks them out and inevitably leads to potato/leprechan jokes.

DubTony

Rory, playing online again?

Hasn't the bad beat thread got enough posts?



Edit: Just read your blog ... well a bit of it. It hurt too much to read on. (Hurt from laughing, that is)
Sell the computer Rory, before you smash it up.

Derek C.

The only way I think I influence players is by having a laugh with them. Keep messin with them and try get them to loosen up a bit. I love saying to players stuff like " You'll play any pair all-in" or "You should fold now before you go all-in". Getting them to try and contradict me by doing the opposite is about the only influence that seems to work for me.
This is limited to drunk pub players tho, it's hard to try get a good player to do anything.

jtsuited

i find i can get a drunk player to tilt by just being there. i always seem to be the 'cheeky young lad' they like to 'keep honest'.

Derek C.

I agree JT, but on the other hand its Vuckin annoying when you feel like people are just calling your every move because they think your some little kid who plays online.

Oh No, now I'm on tilt!!

hotspur

I must admit that whe I play on Culchie's Vegas Baby I sometimes try to tilt all the Canadians (80% of the players) at my tables for a laugh. For example announcing to the table that you are only calling raises from Canadian players (Ntl can back me up on that one). I don't know if it has ever worked though as I don't know what the difference between a Vegas Baby player tilting and one playing his A game looks like!

roryc

DubTony wrote:

Rory, playing online again?

Hasn't the bad beat thread got enough posts?



Edit: Just read your blog ... well a bit of it. It hurt too much to read on. (Hurt from laughing, that is)
Sell the computer Rory, before you smash it up.

Glad to see my pain and suffering is amusing

Yeh, tbh I don't know what possessed me to give it another shot... I'm useless at it. I stupidly keep thinking that the better hand will win. :mad:

Rnger

I can't remember the last time you werent posting about a bad beat. It happens to all of us, get over it!

roryc

Rnger wrote:

I can't remember the last time you werent posting about a bad beat. It happens to all of us, get over it!

haha, yeh it was the last time I was playing online! I don't post about live bad beats because they don't dominate my game, and I don't usually get one after the other, after the other...

(Hold on I misread that, you can't remember the last time I 'wasn't' moaning about a bad beat? I'll take that as a joke... If not search the bad beat thread for the last few months and see how many times I've posted in it. I think your posts outnumber mine quite a bit...)

Don't worry, I won't be posting anymore bad beats! My brief two day long comeback to online poker has ended.

Yeh we all get bad beats, I can handle that. I haven't ONCE mentioned any live bad beat in months have I? I was a good boy up until today Fair play to PPP though. In the space of two hours in two days, I had a poker beaten by a poker, got beaten by a royal flush, saw a house getting beaten by a straight flush.... need I go on?

If this wasn't happening to me I would find it very funny to watch

Anyway, thats the end of online, you won't hear another word about it from me...

ntlbell

hotspur wrote:

I must admit that whe I play on Culchie's Vegas Baby I sometimes try to tilt all the Canadians (80% of the players) at my tables for a laugh. For example announcing to the table that you are only calling raises from Canadian players (Ntl can back me up on that one). I don't know if it has ever worked though as I don't know what the difference between a Vegas Baby player tilting and one playing his A game looks like!

Hehe, in fairness to the canucks they all seem to take it very well, even when we started taken turns at raising by 4 from any position with any two cards, they seem to apreciate a bit of fun at the table and don't mind giving their money away as long as you make them laugh "mad drunk irish men"

roryc

Are they not 'mad drunk Canadians'?

ntlbell

roryc wrote:

Are they not 'mad drunk Canadians'?

No, they're pretty much like doc f they never drink.