Tag Archive: Tilt at Poker

If you want the experience of emotional drain, then sit and play real money poker for a while. The word you'll most often hear to describe this process is "tilt at poker". So what is "tilt" or "going full tilt"? Being on tilt means that you're allowing your emotions to dictate your actions. Yes, we've all been mad as hell with the wrong turn of a card or the sheer frustration that comes from a long losing streak. But looking into the phenomenon more deeply and we'll see that thee are in fact two reasons for this behavior. And knowing which from which might actually help us at the next sitting.