Table image

[Krahsami]

Ok we all know that we bet against people based on the way they play compared to the cards you are holding. A table image is very important to me. I also make notes on other players as well. alot of people do not use this option I recomend it. Alot of other perople will use a tool such as sharkscope to do it for them. The thing about these tools is it is not your
own personal observation and notes. A computer program cannot make up for human notes. All it can do is show you statistics whereas your personal observations dives deeper than that.
To tell ya the truth I hunt down specific people sometimes and just sit on thier left just
because I know it's only a matter of time. I guess you can say its one of my favourites
list. Anyway back to table image. I was watching WSOP and saw dan harrington bluff 2 people with very strong hands out of the pot with a 6 and a 2. He did this successfully becuase of his image. Right then and there I saw the true meaning of poker. Earlier on in the same WSOP Dan had made a raise preflop and I noted what one player had said. Quote " I don't have AA" and he folded. weve all been there with that tight person at the table right? Now remember when he bet? what were your thoughts at the time. Probably I need a good hand to call this guy. You see the biggest bet in the world can not give you the respect of some one like this min raising you


Now on the reverse end you have the hyper aggessive type person. I was playing a .10./25 game and had brought my 25$ buy in to 86$. I encountered a person that raised alot. Even more so after watching this guy for an hour I noticed a betting pattern he had for betting an ace but small kicker. I end in the blind with him doing his raise pattern no other callers. No pot odds at all I have AJ off suit. he raises his pattern I reraise him he goes all in with over 100 easily covering me, I insta call him. SWeet dominated his A3 suited and he didnt get lucky.
If that was any other person but that guy I would have insta folded AJ not insta called. And especially after I had tripled my buy in. But now I doubled up just because of his table image. Again you have all been there with that hyper aggressive type person. Now tell me what you thought when he raised. That pretty well explains it right there, . There are going to be players that dont fall into these categories and are in between.

To me a strong table image is important. It makes my 1 $ worth 2 $ of any hyper agressive type persons bet because it is repected more.

[bowlaman]

I love table image. I usually fly low in cash games and start really tight and when I have played artound 100 hands at a table I will start betting pot with slamm pairs and win alot of blinds and average pots that normally I would have given up. I LOVE IMAGE for tournaments. I love going deep and switching my play every 30min going from tight around 8-10% of hands to sometimes over 25%. I do this to keep my opponents guessing. They never know if im playing AA and limping or raising with 78 suited. Its awesome. I the image I can set seems to give players a deep disadvantage not knowing what I have. It allows me to win pots by raising with 78 and them folding cause they think im strong (I would show the 78) then it allows me to get callers when I bet into pots with AA where they would normally fold.

Ahhh I love playing tricky poker.

[irishpkr]

"Now on the reverse end you have the hyper aggessive type person. I was playing a .10./25 game and had brought my 25$ buy in to 86$. I encountered a person that raised alot. Even more so after watching this guy for an hour I noticed a betting pattern he had for betting an ace but small kicker. I end in the blind with him doing his raise pattern no other callers. No pot odds at all I have AJ off suit. he raises his pattern I reraise him he goes all in with over 100 easily covering me, I insta call him. SWeet dominated his A3 suited and he didnt get lucky."

Sorry, but getting allin pre with AJ for almost 400BB is ---EV

[Krahsami]

Dont take this wrong but I made the right read and doubled up. I watched this guy over an hour and at some point you gotta stop lettling him steal your posts.

you forgot this part also

If that was any other person but that guy I would have insta folded AJ not insta called

[irishpkr]

"Dont take this wrong but I made the right read and doubled up"

More often than not though, you're hating getting all-in for almost 400BB, which is the most lol bit. You give us a read that he can raise/reraise Ax hands, but you have to realise that is not the same as him stacking off for 400BB with Ax. You're a pretty big dog against even a sane range + some bluffs - 25% against AQ+, JJ+, and even if you add in ALL of A2s-A5s, you're still only at 37% equity. You won the battle, but you wont win the war if you're getting in behind his range all the time

"If that was any other person but that guy I would have insta folded AJ not insta called"

Sorry but this is totally irrelevent, what you would do against Phil Hellmuth has ZERO bearing on what you do against some random internet player, really.

EDIT: Even against the top 13%!!! of all hands, you're still behind (49% to 51%)