Message Board : A Professionals Mythbuster - Tilt and Reading Someone

I was just wondering if pros really can go on tilt or is that just "good tv" when we see guys like Hellmuth blow up during a hand? Anymore, we all can tell that many "reality" programs encourage thier "actors" to liven things up for the sake of the show. Do pros tilt differently? Instead of blowing up do they just simmer? How about you Ed? How do you handle tilt?

How about guys like Mike Caro that talk about being able to read someone just based on how they dress or act. I figure that these could be true in low limit, where players are more touristy. But what about higher limit poker? Can you throw these kinds of tells out the window?

As far as talking to other players, do guys like David Negraneu really get a lot of information off of what you say and how you say it?

As far as "Off the table" reads go, what have you ever noticed when you are playing Ed? What have been the more common and realible ones you have come across?

Thanks

thatjimguy 

12+10 is 22

I think they're just humans

This post reminds me of Kurt Cobain quarelling with Axel Rose and this famous 'Hi Axel! Hi Axel! Where's Axel?' from stage on MTV show.

They're also poker STARS, even if they don't especially like it. 

Cool! I knew I was good for something.

Funny thing is, a kinda hit tilt after I made this post!

Was playing today at a table of real good loosies at a .50/$1.00, but I was just not hitting anything. I got drawn out a time or two, came back, then got drawn out again. That's when it hit.

The funny thing is, I was convinced I just made terrbile decicions all day. I did, but only after I was on tilt. I raised to try to "make something happen", made a few loose calls hoping to get lucky, didn't fold a hand that i was terribly behind in on the flop and took it to the river. Those cost me 12 bb today.

But I was down 50bb for the day! Where did the rest of it go? Where were the other bad decisions I made from eariler?

I opened up Poker Tracker and tried to figure it out. I filtered all my hands to "went to showdown". I was actually ahead 12bb there!

I then noticed that I didn't really get involved in many hands at all. Not surprising since I'm tight pre-flop, but surprising that in out of the 378 hands I played today, only 28 of them I took to a showdown!

With 378 hands, thats almost 80 BB and SB plays. I looked at my blinds play and out of those, only half of those seen the flop, only 5 of those went to a showdown.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is, sometimes, the cards don't come. I didn't get a lot of play and opportunities. Since the opportunties were smaller, it seemed worse when I lost a few times in a row. It affected the way I played later.

Nothing was going to stop me from losing 38bb today. But that was normal bad day. I've had them before. It's the 12bb I lost when I lost my head that hurts me in the long run. That 38bb is just the way it goes sometimes and will come back as long a I play right. That 12bb is just gone forever.