Quote Originally Posted by Pingviini
Boyoback, I do not think that kind of approach is beneficial to anyone. Losing ones money is never a good thing, I and I am sure that you can get a table image with cheaper price than a great portion of your stack. And on the top of that, if you dont play at the higher stakes, say at least 1/2 NL your table image doesnt affect that much to the decisions your opponents make .
I think you're wrong and right. Building a bad image and then exploiting it is a legitimate strategy. I've tried it a couple times, and it can work well. It's not the right strategy for me unless conditions are real tight. It does work better at higher stakes.

What you have to understand when doing this, is it has the effect of erasing your reads. You build a bad/loose image, have someone come over the top of you when you hold two pair, you go all in and PRESTO, they take your whole stack with a set. You thought they were playing your image, and deduced your two pair were good. If your image was tighter, you would know your two pair are no good.