This site is all about poker strategies and tips, but all of this will do you no good if you aren’t tilt-proof. Going on tilt is by far the most devastating leak in anyone’s game. All your fancy plays and well thought out strategies won’t do you any good when tilt kicks in.

Here are some tips that may prevent you from going on tilt:

- Start understanding poker as game of decision making: the donk might have sucked out on you this time, hitting his gutshot, but you know he made a mistake by paying far too much for that draw. In the long run your good decision making will result in a profit.

- Choose a more low-variance line of play. Instead of going for the check-raise with top pair in a multiway pot, hoping to build a big one, just bet it out and show strength. More likely then not (this also depends on the texture of the board of course) everyone will fold and there will be no suck outs on later streets, hence less stress.

- And if you do feel like you’re on tilt, just leave the game. A classic example of this is found while playing the deal or no deal game, knowing when to quit while you are ahead and pulling out when you get that not so lucky feeling is the difference between success and failure. There’s no shame in quitting when you’re not in your element. Live to fight another day, don’t bust your bankroll just because the donkey sucked out on the river. No river, no fish.