Majicman Notes

To the uninitiated, poker is a game involving three elements: luck, calculation and deception. But professional poker players have told me that a fourth element just as important: controlling your emotions, or more often, failing to do so — in the lingo, “going on tilt”.

In her spellbinding foray into professional poker, The Biggest Bluff, psychologist Maria Konnikova describes “tilt” as “letting emotions — incidental ones that aren’t actually integral to your decision process — affect decision making.”

Tim Hartford

https://timharford.com/2021/01/what-puzzles-and-poker-teach-us-about-misinformation/