Destroy them. Hunt them in the forums, hunt them in the public games, and crush them into the earth and sew their bodies with salt so that they will never rise again.

@Principians, of course that I am the blame. The question is not whom to blame, but how do you deal with the emotions.

My emotions at being stabbed tend to vary from amusement to mild relief that an annoyingly complicated situation has just become a lot simpler. Very rarely am I annoyed. Being annoyed just gets in the way of enjoying the fight.

I usually don´t do anything in the moment I see the stab. I use to wait a bit to not get emotional and try to analise why the stab happened and what to do next. This is game and stabs are part of the game, don´t take it personally is the first thing to do and learning from this is the second and most important one I think.
To be honest, I don´t get angry with a good stab, like principians wrote, a good stab is your fault to give your opponent this chance I get more angry with stupid stabs that will hurt both you and the stabber in the long run, but in this case I also blame me for not communicating well enough to show this to the other player.
Gunboats are another thing, but then someone could tell that there is no real "stab" in gunboat games.

You could do what one of my opponents did: carry it through to next game. It took me several turns to get to the bottom of why he was accusing me of lying. which I hadn't in that game.

It's a game. Get over it

Why the heck are you playing this game?

I've never been stabbed so I don't have any useful advice.

Sometimes a good tantrum can work to your favor.

If you want to choke someone for playing a game, I would not recommend playing this game personally..

A really good wank.

For me it's either "you got me - but I will take you down with me" (or die trying) or "seriously? not only are you a traitor but a bad one as well". Bad stabs tend to irritate me more as they tend to be purely destructive in nature.

Well, mostly I try to leave myself with enough defense to have a shot at planning a defense. It isn't uncommon that I come out on top after a stab

For me it's either "you got me - but I will take you down with me" (or die trying) or "seriously? not only are you a traitor but a bad one as well". Bad stabs tend to irritate me more as they tend to be purely destructive in nature.

Believe me, when it happens enough times, it becomes REAL easy to shrug off and lament your lack of prowess as a player.

listen to him^^^

Also if you can be upset by betrayal, you obviously shouldn't get upset, but it seems to me that you've already made the mistake of caring too much about your allies in the first place. If you don't care about them, I can't imagine you get that upset.

I'm more with rdrivera on this one, though I tend to be a bit more hotheaded in my response :)

A good stab and I'll message the player saying "Well done, it was a pleasure. How can I be your minion and make your life easier?" I'm not bothered by it all that much and blame myself.

A bad stab, and I'll get *really* mad. That's when I tend to do the wrong thing and bombard the player with not-so-nice messages about how stupid and short-sighted they are, then go into detail about why their plan will fail. I'll emphasize that this is the *wrong* response to have, and that I don't handle it well.

In short, if I'm gonna be fucked, I want it to be a good fuck. I don't want to be part of some sick human centipede where the person fucking me is getting fucked themselves in the process.

Bahahaha

Hehe, +1 rdrivera and goldfinger.

But yeah. Take a breath, walk away from the game for a minute, count backwards from five. Then look at the board and pretend it's gunboat, see what you could theoretically salvage from the situation. Then start talking and see if you can make it happen.

I'm with Jamiet on this one. Distract yourself with something else. Then come back to the game with a better, more positive attitude. If it's a good stab, there's nothing you can do be better.

How I deal with it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDr0mPuyQc

There are many good responses here to the question. Myself, I remember the principle that the mind and body function well enough without being pushed or forced. in this case this means that without anger and without effort your natural instincts will help you deal with that player better in the future and the next thing you know your knife will be firmly be placed in his or her back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHgyyaTSHpw

I just watch the above a few times and it makes me feel better.

Get a job as a civil servant. You soon get used to being stabbed.

Get a job as a nice roasted chicken. You soon get used to being stabbed.