Re: What\'s your table image?...And is mine a problem?
I have a very tight image. For example, playing last month in a no fold-em 4/8 limit hold em game with a kill, I caused people to talk about how tight I was by being the only person to fold in a multi-way limped pot when I was the SB (this after raising UTG an orbit or two earlier and having pocket aces in one of my few hands shown down). One reason that I folded was that I had 73o or something equally weak and would have had to post a kill if I won the pot, but people do notice that I fold in the blinds a lot more than everyone else and the chatty players sometimes comment on it. Also, in a limped pot, I once mucked in middle position and accidentally exposed an ace (I had A4o) and the table was shocked that I could fold an ace for one bet.
If someone bets a queen high flush using both hole cards and gets raised on the river, it seems to be an automatic three bet against anyone but me. I also think that a nut flush usually won't be three-bet against my river raise if the board is paired but might against other players. I also suspect that if I limp UTG I get fewer calls behind me than if anyone else limps.
I also have an image as a good hand-reader. One table was convinced that I tossed away a flush against a player who check-raised me on the end after his A3 connected on an ace-high flop and he hit running threes for a full house. I've also shown the ability to successfully value-bet second pair and correctly check behind with two pair, both when the flush card comes on the river at different times in the same game.
Since I generally play in loose-passive limit games, I generally don't have very many bluffing opportunities, although I have shown a penchant for picking out which opponents I can bluff off of a split pot when we are both playing the board, such as when there is a straight showing. Since the table is loose, what I seem to be doing is changing people from betting and calling a raise to checking and calling a bet.
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