04.06.08
Your Table Image is Everything
When playing poker at a casino or even at a local home game, you always want to make sure you protect your table image. Whatever type of poker player you are you want to get that across to the table early and often because it may help you down the road.
If you are a tight player, you want to show the table that you are a tight player. Don’t get caught calling to the river with a marginal hand. This could definitely ruin your table image.
You might ask, “Well, why would you want the table to recognize that you are a tight player?” Tight players typically hold one key advantage at a table. They get the ultimate respect when they finally get around to playing a hand.
A tight player might receive the benefit of a doubt late in a game where an opponent is looking to make a bottom pair call or fold a hand. Typically if a player is deemed tight the opponent will recognize this, fold the hand and look for another battle to fight.
Moving to the other end of the spectrum if you are an extremely loose player that you definitely want the table to know this. A loose player wants to know that he/she will play any hand at any time.
This also comes in handy when the flop doesn’t reveal the best cards in the world for an opponent. Players will know that the loose player calls and bets with just about anything. This might scare other players away for fear that a loose player caught something on the flop.
The game of poker is an extremely psychological game and it is key to play with the minds of your opponents. Therefore, establish your identity early and often and it could pay off for you in the end.
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