0 to a million in 1 year playing online poker. part 4. (TILT)

I feel better this week.

It is going well, but we are all itching to move up the levels. Including myself.

But I have warned the guys to stick to the plan.And we are not moving up until $200.

I think I am the one that wants to move up quicker and it is so hard not to. We are doing well and are ahead of schedule but for some reason it seems impossible to fight the urge to bet higher amounts.

 Day 15 Week started off good. We are feeling more confident with lots of money in the kitty for any bad swings. We can take more risks then the 1st and 2nd weeks, where we had to play real tight.

 Day 16 Have realised we are earning a lot of reward points by playing so much. That means we can buy in into tournaments with the points. For now we agreed to keep playing just tables.

Playing tournaments will mean we play for hours and wont earn any money unless we win a satellite and then win in the next tournament. It means for 1 session we would lose all income from playing tables.  For the risk of winning against 2000 other players in a tournament. We will re-look at it in a few weeks to see how best to use the points.

Day 17. During the game I went into what some people call "TILT".

Tilt is a poker term for a state of mental or emotional confusion or frustration in which a player adopts a less than optimal strategy, usually resulting in the player becoming over-aggressive. This term is closely associated with steam and some consider the terms equivalent, but 'steam' typically carries more anger and intensity.





For example i had a full house. I went all in.. he got one better.










I had a king high flush.  He went all in and i called him. He had an ace high flush.















I got a straight, he had nothing and i went all in and he called me. then two spades in a row come up to give him a flush.










This was in one 4 hour session.
Lucky i have a punching bag in the next room. Oh i smashed it.
And the next shift started and one of my partners calmed me down and just got me to walk away.
So you must learn to control TILT. And once you learn to control tilt you can learn to use it against others and recognise when they are in tilt. And even learn how to put them in tilt.

Day 18 I log in and we were on $101.36. I had to double check I thought "shit we are over a hundred dollars". I did start to play really tight thinking I did not want to fall under the $100 mark and did not play my best. Ended up not much higher at $104.34 but it was still growth.

Day 19 felt a bit more comfortable today not worrying as we were in the $120's and we finished down at $116.

Day 20 Wow the guys did great and I come through I cant remember the exact amount we ended on but i will keep the surprise for tomorrow.

Day 21. $149.23 Everything is going great.

Weekly target $2.20
Weekly actual $149.23
Previous weekly total $77.14
Increase $72.09
Total Per hour $00.42c

 Now i am in two minds.

One says we are over $147 a head of schedule. While the other voice in my head said you have made $50 bucks in 3 weeks and  earn 14 cents an hour. Just questioning the this plan. It seems all good but i make a lot more money from other avenues that i dont have to do anything. I wonder if I want to work an 8 hour day job i could be earning $1000 a week instead of this measly amount.

I will keep cracking along. What can i say i have a plan and i will follow it through. I
 am excited as we get closer to the $200 mark to play higher stakes.
It will still be fairly low stakes.  I have played and beaten  this next level before in my poker days. And actually I prefer the next level as they play a little smarter but more predictable. They don't do as stupid things and they are easy to read.

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