I don't throw controllers when I get mad, cuz my older brother has broken some 7 controllers in his gaming lifetime, and I think its a waste of hardware.
Everytime I get super pissed, I turn off the game, and play something else.
But I rage on a regular basis when playing MW2.
Most of the time, I just turn it off. But when I don't, and keep playing, I get into a simmering rage where I am still super pissed, but I am just much better at the game. Someone kills me, I respawn, throw a grenade halfway across the map, and am rewarded with their face painted all over the walls. I get quickscoped, I switch to my UMP class and jump over their bullets as I empty the magazine into them. Last night for example, I went 4 rounds of S&D without getting a single kill, and died to such ridiculous bullshit every single round. Quickscoped headshot through a wall that I know you can't fucking shoot through, noob tubed off of a wall 20 feet away, guy who killed me because of lag even though I was 10 feet AROUND a corner away from him, and finally someone that knifed me after I shot them twice with my shotgun...
The next game I went 13 - 0.
I was pretty fucking mad going into the game, but was smug as hell after the next round :3