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BooG690
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03-04-2009, 05:01 PM
Post subject: Poker Attire at Cardrooms
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I personally love Full Tilt gear. They actually have pretty nice stuff. But what do you think of wearing this kind of stuff at cardrooms? I mean, getting dressed just to play poker? I find it kind of tacky. What do you think?
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Taicho
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Well, if you're playing micro stakes a tux might be overdoing it, but dressing up might be fine (or even expected) at the higher levels. Also, it depends on if you're at a fancy casino or a local shack meeting with the same group every week.
Either way though I think it just comes down to preference. If you feel more confident when you're dressed up (or, alternatively, when you're dressed casually), go with that.
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meeloche
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Cause you want people to know you play online an actually have a clue right? Sounds like a good move. Although you'll get the image you want if anybody at the table is actually good, that however is unlikely.
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sk8r_daniel
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I find that when live donks know that you are really good they get scared of you and just avoid you. I've had this happen a few times and it was quite boring picking up the blinds over and over. My preference is to just wear whatever I'm comfortable in and not have any logos on me.
Sometimes I will wear business casual, as it seems that I am just another donkey walking in after a day of work.
Sometimes I wear ridiculous glasses and a sideways hat just for kicks to see if it gets me any more actions than usual. But I don't feel all that comfortable doing this.
The best tip for beating live donks that I can give, is to treat them very nicely and do not berate their play in any way. Encourage them to play the way they are and do not talk about strategy too much. Say things like.... ohhhh that was so unlucky! When really it was pure stupidity.
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HAHAHA I love to see the guys that walk into the poker room at the local casino with Full Tilt and Pokerstars stuff on. I also love the guys that where hoodies with sunglasses that never talk to anyone because they are afraid of giving away tells.
Lmao, these are also the guys that when they get busted by a donk who got lucky flip out on the poor guy for playing the hand poorly and getting lucky. It just amazes me.
Personally, I just throw on some comfortable clothes (for me thats sweatpants/gym shorts and t-shirt). Seriously though, just where whatever the fuck you want. If they guy is good enough to realize that, "hey he's wearing business/casual, he must be a donk." Then thats not the guy I want to tango with lol.
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I've gone in everything from beat up old shirts to full on club attire. A lot of times on the weekends I'll play for a few hours, then head up to a decent restaurant or bar, then go back down to play if I don't find anything to occupy me. I don't really dress for the poker room, it's for the rest of the casino.
When people give away anything with what they wear, I try to capitalize on it. Dranger mentioned the guy's in the hoodies, I chat them up as much as I can until they start talking poker. Once I get an idea which book they read or what they think of the other players, I change the subject so as not to tap the glass for the other players.
My goal is to make the competition uncomfortable, and if they're wearing FT or Stars gear, they're probably the best competition at the table.
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Fnord
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Anyway who wears online poker site stuff at a small or mid stakes table is ALMOST as stupid as the guys who display a high VIP status level on PokerStars.
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Micro2Macro
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Originally Posted by Fnord
Anyway who wears online poker site stuff at a small or mid stakes table is ALMOST as stupid as the guys who display a high VIP status level on PokerStars.
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Do you think displaying the VIP level puts one at a disadvantage? Or perhaps it may cause players assign a specific lable to their play within seconds of playing, which one can make general assumptions on how to exploit this player. For instance, when sitting next to a Supernova, just steal their blinds because when 24 tabling its hard to play back? That's the first thing I'd be doing anyway until that player adjusts. And I wouldn't have to wait a few orbits to learn when to attack.
As for poker attire if you can afford one, here's an image for you:
Get a designer suit (Gucci or something), get some bling, get some $600 sunglasses (not see-though though just for style). Roll up to the $5/$10 or $10/$20 table or whatever isn't the lowest stake (because balla's don't play with poket change), then straddle every fucking round, and just give off the sense that you're pissing money.
Then set the trap.
fwiw I have yet to try this....
and it probably won't even work that great considering players at $10/$20 would probably (I'm assuming they're actually good this high live?) see right through it.
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If you are a SuperNova or SuperNovaElite and sit down with $40 at a $200 max game, you've drasticly changed how I'm going to play you.
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Micro2Macro
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Originally Posted by Fnord
If you are a SuperNova or SuperNovaElite and sit down with $40 at a $200 max game, you've drasticly changed how I'm going to play you.
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What if I'm a SNE and I sit to your left with a full stack?
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Fnord
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Originally Posted by Micro2Macro
What if I'm a SNE and I sit to your left with a full stack?
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I consider finding a new table if you know how to counter my favorite plays.
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Micro2Macro
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Originally Posted by Fnord
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Originally Posted by Micro2Macro
What if I'm a SNE and I sit to your left with a full stack?
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I consider finding a new table if you know how to counter my favorite plays. |
Too bad I'm sitting at every table spread across every limit you play and the only open seats any any table are to my right. I'm also max tabling on every other site that you like to play whoring points there as well. Looks like you better unplug your computer. 
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"Once we reach a certain level of mastery, we see there are higher levels and challenges. If we are disciplined and patient, we proceed. At each higher level, new pleasures and insights await us--ones not even suspected when we started out. We can take this as far as we want--in any human activity there is always a higher level to which we can aspire."
Check out my blog here!
"You are a degenerate Gaam-balur"
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