avoiding the tilt successfully

[ugly]

first off im sorry if this is in the wrong forum section, and please move if it is. also sorry for the length.... i got a little bit carried away... sorry im a newb...what can i say...

well today i started off on AP playing some $1NL. my initial buy-in was $80 and after an hour or two of playing i was up to about $140. until i got dealt KK in middle position, raised my normal 3BB raise and got 2 callers. i put out a small bet and one called. a king came on the turn... and my noobishness told me to just check it (not seeing the potential heart flush draw on the board). well on the river came the 3rd heart to complete that flush draw, and even though i had a gut feeling i was beat.... i raised...and called a reraise. after this hand, i was back down to my initial buy-in of around $80.

i was greatly upset by my play of this hand, and even more upset that the caller had 86suited to call my preflop raise. so i decided to sit out for about 10 minutes to gather myself and think the hand over and grab a quick snack. as i came back to the table, i decided that i was just going to try to play the best poker i can, all the while watching the guy that took that pot build himself up to about 220 from his 80 buy-in. in the next couple of hours i played tight and i would say very well. especially when i took a nice pot from the same player. and i ended my session with $160. i know its not a lot and im sure many players profit much more from a 5 hour session... but i was just happy to see that my poker game has improved from when i first started, and that i can see myself avoiding my old tilting. on top of that i took home 2nd place in a local tourney of about 30 guys. again sorry about the length and if this is in the wrong forum.

[Humphrind]

Don't worry about $$s or ROI or BB/100. If you are generally up after playing poker, you are doing GREAT!

Congratulations, and great to see that you are not letting those bad beats get to you.

BTW, I'd have lost my roll on that KK hand as well.

[biondino]

My big problem with tilt isn't getting bad beats. I sail serenely through them. It's when I know *I* have played a hand badly and lost a considerable amount of cash as a result. One-off, I can live with. But if it happens a few times in a short time period, I can feel the fuse wire shortening and shortening.

I think I'd have folded at the re-raise. But I couldn't say for sure.