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Why You Go On Tilt
You brought your world view to the poker table.
Not everyone goes on tilt at the poker table for the same reason. We don’t all have the same triggers; we don’t all view the world in the same ways. So what I’m about to describe may not apply to you. I think it probably does. I think I’m fixing to describe what goes on in the mind of most holdem players who have a problem with tilt. If it’s not describing you, it’s describing someone you know or play with. Most people go on tilt when they observe a series of outcomes that doesn’t match their view of the way the world is supposed to work. I think it’s that simple in most cases. They start fuming if they experience hand after hand of starting out with the best hand and ending up with second best. The best hand in poker is supposed to win, maybe not every time, but certainly most of the time. When it doesn’t, to many players it means the world is out of whack and it’s unsettling to them.
The Just World Hypothesis is a belief that the world is just and people get what they deserve. A Just World Hypothesis leads you to conclude that you (or anyone in particular) "deserve" to win because you played well. Observation of a world where that doesn’t happen causes a dissonance, makes you uncomfortable, and puts you on tilt. It’s all a natural progression from an innate belief in a Just World to anger and tilt.
If this describes you then you really do have a problem -- because the world isn’t just. It’s not fair. The good guy doesn’t always win, sometimes the black hats end up with the chips when it’s all over. Life isn’t a children’s action serial, it’s sometimes just random. Unfairness is pervasive. We often don’t realize how pervasive because the Just World Hypothesis doesn’t just cause us to expect the deserving to win, we also assume that winners are deserving. If a book is a bestseller we assume that the author is a good writer and that the book is a good book. It might even be true. But that doesn’t mean some other writer you never heard of isn’t a better writer, and wrote a better book. The randomness of the marketplace brings the top sellers to the top of the heap, not the quality of the book. Wanting things to be fair and just isn’t always going to be enough to make it so.
Thinking of the world as just for us is very functional. The belief that if we work hard and do the right things that we will eventually be rewarded is a strong motivator for us to persevere in the face of adversity. But thinking of the world as a just place for others isn’t always so functional. When put in the perspective of how we view others, a Just World Viewpoint is often not so much that hard work is rewarded but that bad behavior should be punished.
Hopefully the recognition of what the root of the problem is can help lead you to the steps you need to take to get it under control.~~ Read more about Poker Strategy. Recent • Loose And Tight Play In Texas Holdem Poker • Poker And The Art Of The Bluff • Bad Beats and Lucky Draws • The WSOP Carnival Spirit And Some Lucky Charms • Why You Go On Tilt • Beginners In Holdem Poker Should Wait to Play • 5 Rules For Playing Casino Poker So You Don't Look Like An Idiot • The Ladder of Inference • Playing Medium and Low Pairs in Stud Poker • Five-Card Draw Poker Online at Low Limits Tools 
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