Being on a tilt, a negative tilt, can be extremely damaging to your emotions and thus damaging to your play. Unfortunately - or perhaps fortunately - all poker players go on negative tilts n their career. It's more common that some of us would like to think, but what matters is not how and when it happens to you. What matters is that you develop the ability, sooner rather than later, to mitigate the damage of a tilt to your overall game.