Thanks for the informative reply Erpel. The point you make of learning to recognize when the spew is happening, catch myself, and then reflect on my thought process throughout the hand seems like a well defined process towards controlling tilt.
One of the things I am going to be doing over the next couple days is go through the 45k hands I played this month and sort out the big/medium pots lost and try to recall my feelings during each hand, what made me play the way I did etc, and whether or not each line was optimal given the information I had in each situation. I think I'll likely see more illogical lines than what I anticipate, but discovering them is only going to give me the opportunity to get better. I think my biggest issue with hands like this is I try to ignore them as if they never happened. I will be making an effort towards stopping my ego from allowing me to objectively analyze each and every hand played at the table. Given enough time and effort, I should make it through small stakes soon enough.
I have some reading to do on this as well, which I will be taking care of very soon.



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