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I've been Table "imaged" - Walk away or stay and p
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ArcticKnight
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01-11-2005, 04:41 AM
Post subject: I've been Table "imaged" - Walk away or stay and p
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Flush
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: golf course
Posts: 416
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I'm sure something similar to the following has happened to many of us.
We slide into a 6 seater LIM game and we get hit with some good hands right of the get go. After folding the first two hands we land a QQ, and take a nice pot. Two hands later we lose KK to a guy with A3 who his an A on the turn, but two hands later we get a nice to pair and win a good pot with AJs.
Things are looking good, and then it dries up real quick. Seven or eight hands go by and you don't have enough to play the raises that hit your SB, and both times you cover the BB, you get pushed off your weak hands with post-flop raises.
But wait, after 6 or 7 more folds u catch a monster. You come out of the first position with a raise with AA, and the table folds in turn. Two hands later you reraise from mid-position with AQs, and and you able to drag one player along for the minimum after Q and junk hits the board.
The situation is obvious, you have been marked as a tight, conservative player who only plays good hands. It make know matter whtether you are or not, that's you image until you redifine it (or play it to your advantage?) The question is what do you about?
Do you leave the table knowing that your good hands won't pay off, but wishing that you played some junk to mix things up earlier. Fact is though, you had almost no mid range hands - you either had good playable hands, or junk.
Or, you do consider your "new" image as an advantage, and wait for some moderate hands and play them very aggressively? Perhaps overly agressive. Knowing however, that it is harder to make those flush and straight draws pay big at the SH table.
Or, is there third option?
I'd be interested to hear how different experinced players approach this. For me I'd rather take the money and cut to another table and start afresh, recognizing that I don't have a lot to gain where I am unless some of my moderate hands turn gold (and that I could suck out my winnings trying).
Any thoughts out there for when you get labled tight-conservative. Which is better, change and capitiize, or ditch the table?
PS> I realize that some will say that I should have jumped into the mix with semi-playable hands before I got "imaged", but let's presume that the cards and table position just didn't give you the cards to do that.
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stevedonel
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Full House
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Vegas
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Sounds like to much trouble to bother salvaging. You've made some good dough, dont piss it away trying to look like a bad player, so you can win a few more pennies. If this were in B&M, I'd request a table change, to the loosest table of course. While at the original table, I would probably use my tight image to steal some pots, but for the most part its not worth the trouble.
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Is that guy still part of the forum??
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Fnord
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: I'll Do You Like A Truck
Posts: 19,333
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The guys at the cardroom are always saying "you play too tight", "he only plays the nuts" and "uh-oh D&D raised". Then I get cold called in 4 spots after raising under the gun.
Don't worry about image because the fish won't let a tight player get in the way of playing their crap ass hand to feed their need to gamb00l.
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