I think the biggest help that I have had is just understanding variance. My mental game is quite strong these days but when I do tilt I stop playing...it's so important. When you tilt and keep playing it's going to really hurt your winrate. Quality over quantity imo. Play around with the variance calculator in the tools section of this site and you will see that even with a high winrate you can hit some bad stretches and with a lowish winrate things can get brutal. Just remember it's all about volume because anything can happen over a few hundred games. There are two books that have good reveiews which are "The Poker Mindset" (not sure of author) and "Elements of Poker" by Tommy Angelo. I have not read them yet but I do plan to...I hope this helps a little.

Hi,

Tilt management is probably (with bankroll management) the most important thing that will determine how well you'll be doing as a poker player.

Here are some of the stuff I used that can help you with tilt management : 
- IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO QUIT when tilting (as well explained by Newff) ; it's very hard to do and extremely important
- understand variance is huge ; it's good to try to focus only on playing well, on making the right decisions (results shouldn't be a concern while playing) ; if you win 500$ in a day and could have won 800$ playing your A-game, it's not a winning day in a way... in reality you lost 300$ and that's not good ; same thing if you lost 400$ playing your A-game : you won the other 500$ you would have lost if you had played on tilt...
- every suckout against a bad player is GOOD ; it means games are still good (because you found a bad player) and variance is the only reason why bad players stay in the game and believe they have a chance ; if variance was minimal, bad players would lose quickly and know they are bad, so there would be much less money to take... you'll take (roughly) the same money as if the game was full of bad players with less variance, it will just take a little more time, the time needed to reach the "long term"
- breathing and concentrating on your breathing 4-5 times (counting those breathings) can help a lot to calm down the mental when you start being on tilt
- try to wait 2 seconds before each decision, helps a lot
- the poker mindset helped me a lot, i think it's a really good book

I hope that will help a bit. Tell me if you want me to expand more on anything. I hope my english isn't too bad ;)

Steve

Hi there,

I agree knowing variance is the best thing.

I think you need to be a bit "fatalistic" meaning that when you have AA you know sooner or later they will get cracked...or when you play a bad player sometimes you will lose.

Then you need to know yourself and your threshold, when to quit...

I didn't like Tommy Angelo book, I mean he says very good things in a very simple way (sometimes stating the obvious), but I did not find it inspirational.
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