Tilt

When a poker player allows their emotions to cloud their judgment during a hand, and they are not able to play their normal game, it’s called going on “tilt” or “tilting”. Often, this tends to happen after a bad beat or consecutive bad beats, and as a result the player tilt shoves or bluffs at the wrong time.

EXAMPLE “A titled donkey on my table was going all-in every hand after getting his aces cracked.”

Watch Phil Hellmuth a.k.a. the “Poker Brat” tilting and ranting against Cristian Dragomir at the 2008 WSOP ME.

Related terms on PokerDictionary.net

  1. Splash The Pot
  2. SPR
  3. Cracked
  4. FPS
  5. Hit and Run
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