Yeah, I've lost almost 40 BB tonight... I'm taking a short break as I tilted. It all started with getting a set with AA and then a full house AAATT, to lose to quad TT. You have to be careful. Shortly after that I got killed again with a mistake of hitting raise instead of fold (R and F on the keyboard are next to eachother) on K2o, only to see that I paired my king. I decided to hold on it stupidly and lost to AK of course! That's what started all the tilting.

Anyways, those stupid mistakes cost you, and you start playing hands you wouldn't normally play and you start to chase.. hense the term fish.

Take a break, read a book on poker, and start over in a few days. Im gonna play some video games and re-read my poker book for disipline.

The worst I've had is consecutive -40BB nights at the .50/1. No tilt though, just straight suckouts.

You can give away a lot of bets on tilt. When you start tilting, you need to challenge yourself to play better, or stop playing altogether for the night. If you think about poker in terms of your expectation of winning, going on tilt is like throwing away several days of solid play.

well playing NL 25's lost $150 in my worst ever 2 days - I guess that's 6 buy-ins, 300 big blinds or 150 big bets... the worst extended downswing I've been on was about $700 on the same tables, but that's when i was relatively new to NL - had a great run up from $500 to $1250 and lost it all over a couple of months... of course those days were before I learnt solid winning play over the past few months - my worst downswing since has been $75 in a session and I have had one losing week in the past 15 or so..