Once I built my bankroll up to where I could play 200NL (for me 50 BI's is an acceptable bankroll) I've started playing a lot of live games. 1/2 live is a pretty easy game, but when I'm running poorly for a long session it gets tough to shake tilt.
I played a 8-9 hour session today, on the first hand of the session I ran into pocket aces with pocket kings, got away from it on the turn (board was J J 8 5 no flush draws on the flop) and lost about $75 on the hand. A couple hands later I ran into aces with kings again lost about $50 on it, grinded it out for about 4 hours and got back to about $170, got in a raising war with a short stack (about $70 in chips) ended up getting it all in the middle with my QQ vs 88 and he flopped a set.
Played for about another 4/5 hours without even flopping a pair (I flopped the dummy end of a straight draw, which was my best flop all day) and the blinds ate away at me until I had about $50 left again got in a raising war with another short stack who still had me covered, ended up all in pre-flop with my AK vs AQ, he flopped a set of queens I didn't have a flush draw and was dead on the turn. Rather than rebuy I just drove home. I literally didn't have a single hand that would have won a showdown the whole session. Middle pair on a 9
10
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flop was the best I had all day.
I'm not sure how to shake tilt at live games, when I play online I just get up from the table, take a drive, bitch about my bad beats to my girl, etc. Any tips on how to shake it live?