Tilt
Regular readers will note that I play few MTTs these days. I have what I refer to as a boredom tilt where I just lose it after an hour or two and play stupid. I may add or amend that to Geezer tilt.
I’ve been playing those near freerolls on FT for 5 FPP. Yesterday, I played two. First had your standard suckout about an hour and a half in. But the second was a happy time. I avoided stupidity for over 3 hours. It looked like I had a nice chance being around the top 50 stacks. Then, I lost it and autopilot wasn’t good enough. It was a dumb hand and I’d have not done what I did under normal circumstances. I was bored but damn near unconscious. I just kept clicking without thinking.
I’d played a hell of a game up to that point. That’s what really frosts me. I was winning close to 80% of the hands I went past the flop on. It was close to feeling invincible. Reads were right on.
The tilt was similar to the old tilt but not quite the same. It seemed more mental fatigue than the emotion based tilt. It was fairly late in the day and I like to play earlier — one of the reasons I don’t play blogger tournaments. I’m waiting for one of the morning ones to start as I write this. Probably bust too soon to see if it redevelops.
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“Geezer tile” — haha. Being old, er, um, more mature, I can relate.
The mental fatigue, as you call it, is an actual phenomenon, I’m sure. I play in live tournaments, and after a while, players just take an “aw, screw it” attitude.
Off topic: remember the micro-fiber cleaning rags? You may have already known this, but they work great for cleaning my reading glasses.