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Decide while you're sober
You cannot prevent tilt; you can only catch it early. Learn your own warning lights: a racing heart, clicking faster, the urge to win it back this orbit. Then carry professional tools, decided BEFORE the session, never during it: a stop-loss — quit at N buy-ins down, no matter how good the game; a session-length cap; a ten-minute walk after any bad beat that lingers; and never move up stakes to chase. Rules written in anger are excuses. Rules written in advance are armor.
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You can't stop the storm, but you can build the shelter before it lands.