Done and happy to provide some words if needed. As somebody that regularly goes on 30BI ups and downs in short periods (the former when running hot, the latter when running below average and tilting hard), I've always had a hard time regulating tilt in poker. That's always seemed totally bizarre to me, because I've never had any problems with controlling my emotions at work or during sports and other games which have much less of a luck element in the short term. I'm sure that's because I have overwhelming sense of entitlement and an in-built expectation that I'll win at any kind of logic and mental arithmetic activity against 99% of the population (whether reasonable or not).
In terms of anxiety, I've never lost any sleep over a losing session. I do have an essential tremor though, which can be off the chart after a long and intense session. It can be problematic at work too and occasionally manifest itself in actual nerves in terms of being anxious about looking anxious (when I'm not actually anxious!), which makes the tremor worse. I haven't worked out the solution to this yet, other than booze helps a lot.
On a related note, one area I'd be really interested in looking into is the role of confidence in sport and games. In English football, it's weird how teams can go from losing every week to winning every week after just one trigger, like sneaking a late equaliser in a dire match.
Edit: also worth noting my win rate quoted in the survey includes rakeback. Not sure if that's correct, but that's what I've done as it reflects >half my winnings.
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