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    Default What's a fish?

    I have read bits and pieces referring to fishes, I used to think it meant new players - but think i'm off the mark with that.



    I've checked out the 'what the hell does x mean' sticky but there's no listing...

    What's a fish?

    Thanks!
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    if you cant spot the fish its normally you.
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    I've googled - the term. Not usualy a fan of doing that because you never know the quality of the definition.

    But I've landed on this: -

    Poker - Fish.
    Definition: A bad or weak poker player. A sucker.

    Is it as simple as that?
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    indeed it is, though as you move up the limits and the games get harder even half decent players become 'fish'.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LuckySlevin
    Is it as simple as that?


    Yea it's that simple, a bad player(fish) is the exact opposite of a good player(shark). Both on contrary extremes of the oceanic food chain. Following? It starts getting confusing when animalia from the mammal kingdom is introduced. Enter Donkey. (Refer to Bigred's thread on "Things I like to Fuck")
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    Oh I get the analogy now... fish and sharks - Thanks!
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    fish (weak players) get eaten by sharks (strong players) in the sea (poker table)
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    ECHO
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    Now guess what a Whale is?
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    Quote Originally Posted by bjsaust
    Now guess what a Whale is?
    a big fish that is prone to drowning
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    something better than a fish but steal food for sharks? =)
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    Quote Originally Posted by bjsaust
    Now guess what a Whale is?
    Oooh oooh...An aquatic mammal that superficially resembles a large fish and is valued commercially for it's oil, flesh, and sometimes whalebone

    Marine biology FTW
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    Quote Originally Posted by Squeaky_Midget1
    Quote Originally Posted by bjsaust
    Now guess what a Whale is?
    Oooh oooh...An aquatic mammal that superficially resembles a large fish and is valued commercially for it's oil, flesh, and sometimes whalebone

    Marine biology FTW
    umm

    and is valued commercially for the sustainable income generated by tourism associated with whale watching

    extractive vs non-extractive resource utilisation - post-grad conservation management (after honours level marine biology) FTW
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    ^^^ obvious whale fucker
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    lol.

    Whale: A fish that sits down with a LOT more money at the table.
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    whale = fish with a big stack
    here's an example, villain is 40-35 and running like god until now!

    Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $1 BB (9 handed) Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

    Hero ($94)
    MP1 ($41.60)
    MP2 ($101.50)
    MP3 ($42.20)
    CO ($59)
    Button ($98.50)
    SB ($79.85)
    BB ($103)
    UTG ($302.05)

    Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with K, K.
    UTG raises to $3, Hero raises to $9, 7 folds, UTG calls $6.

    Flop: ($19.50) 6, T, 2 (2 players)
    UTG checks, Hero bets $16, UTG raises to $127, Hero calls $69 (All-In).

    villain had AT and didn't improve. He got his stack up to $300 again, but I only got another $40 out of him before he went busto
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    Thanks Daven that's interesting - just out of interest if a paired flop had come out how would you have changed your play if at all?

    also what do the numbers mean - 40/35

    thanks again =)
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    Quote Originally Posted by LuckySlevin
    Thanks Daven that's interesting - just out of interest if a paired flop had come out how would you have changed your play if at all?

    also what do the numbers mean - 40/35

    thanks again =)
    dunno, think I stack off regardless. This was a 200bb max-buy-in table, so if I lost I'd look at his hand and then probably rebuy 200 deep vs this whale

    40/35
    40 is vpip - % of times villain voluntarily put money in pot
    35 is pft - % of times villain raised pre-flop
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    Just to give you a quick answer lucky. The numbers Daven stated (40/35) is a players VP$IP, and his PFR, respectively.

    VP$IP - Voluntarily Put Money Into Pot: Anytime a player puts money into the pot without being forced (aka blinds) it adds to this stat.

    PFR - Preflop Raise: How often a player raises preflop.

    Therefore, as daven villians stats indicate, he plays 40% of hands, raising 35% of those hands and limping 5%.

    These stats are offered with programs called HUDs (Head's Up Display), which are found in programs like PT3, HEM, PA HUD. The stats help determine players tendencies and act as reads in some cases. Just by looking at those stats, daven could conclude that the player was playing way too many hands preflop, therefore his range on the flop wasn't as tight as other players.
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    Thanks Stacks and Daven, filed away in the ever increasing memory store that is my FTR poker knowledge

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