fish commenting on my tight play

[AWLurch]

Seperate your ego from poker. Also, where I typically play you are allowed to straddle from any position for however much you want. I sometimes like to straddle from late position, usually the button, to appear looser than I am, and atleast get money in from position. Where I play the action always begins from the left of the straddle, so straddling from the button allows you to be last to act on each street.

Obviously, without this advantage in your poker room I would take the previously noted advice of loosening up from late position. This can be profitable if you can see a cheap flop, even with rags.

[Rick Nebiolo]

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LOL, I sit at a $4-8 game a while back and a friend of mine starts telling everyone how tight I play. I am think to myself, "Damit Winston, shut up!". The next hand I get KK UTG raise and get eight callers. I am not certain comments about how tight you play have a significant impact on your action.

After all, they came to the casino to play, not fold.

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You may not have noticed a difference that game but over the long run many of the players who give too much action see the better players showing off their "good folds" and "tight play" and eventually tighten up and improve a little faster than they otherwise would have.

~ Rick

[steamboatin]

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LOL, I sit at a $4-8 game a while back and a friend of mine starts telling everyone how tight I play. I am think to myself, "Damit Winston, shut up!". The next hand I get KK UTG raise and get eight callers. I am not certain comments about how tight you play have a significant impact on your action.

After all, they came to the casino to play, not fold.

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You may not have noticed a difference that game but over the long run many of the players who give too much action see the better players showing off their "good folds" and "tight play" and eventually tighten up and improve a little faster than they otherwise would have.

~ Rick

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You are right. I wasn't doing the talking or showing anything down. My point was in regards to third party comments about my play. I don't think they have near the impact as the actions you mentioned.

[Johnes Benjamin]

maybe complain about holdings but just talk more in general if you want to seem more involved in the game. It really works well.

[PokrLikeItsProse]

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LOL, I sit at a $4-8 game a while back and a friend of mine starts telling everyone how tight I play. I am think to myself, "Damit Winston, shut up!". The next hand I get KK UTG raise and get eight callers. I am not certain comments about how tight you play have a significant impact on your action.

After all, they came to the casino to play, not fold.

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It doesn't affect their preflop play that much unless the pot is short-handed, but from experience, it definitely affects how much action they give you after the flop.

[govman6767]

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Yup. Tell him you're new, but trying to learn how to play good like him. That's why you bought Al_Capone_Junior's new book "play bad, win big."

Don't forget to mention my chapters on ...

straddling (the straddle rule: 4 beers and I start straddlin')

any two will do

49o: powerhouse revisited

The only losers are the ones who folded

they were sooooted.

Al

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MORE CHAPTERS PLZ !!!!

[Rek]

Yeah don't offer advice and let them know they play like a donk - they may get better.

Leave your ego at home and say something like "Well I don't think I'm as good as some of you guys. I'm trying to learn to get better". Then cash in their money and go home.

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I really like this response-"Well I don't think I'm as good as some of you guys. I'm trying to learn to get better"

I think a lot of you are reading into my question, and maybe I should make myself clear. At the b&m where I play, even though I play tight, I'll have Aces, bet out 7 pre-flop and usually get 7-8 callers.
People don't really bother factoring in strategy against tight players there. In a no-limit game, these people would get destroyed. You can read them like books, and they all call and raise to the river with junk.

So, I guess I'm saying that It doesn't really matter if these people think I'm tight or loose, it doesn't change their play. I just want some funny things to say. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[TobyG]

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So, my question is, do any of you have any witty retorts to the fish trying to tell me how to play? I asked a fish last night about his chapter in his book that states you should play junk to the river every hand. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Don't bother with witty retorts. Straddle a couple times early if everyone else is doing it. Order an adult beverage of your preference and nurse it. Tell a bad beat story. You'd be surprised how few will notice your play after that point. If someone does, shrug and mumble about being card dead. Straddle at the next opportunity or toss the dealer a $1 to "change your luck". Witty retorts make you memorable. You want to blend in (or appear to rather) as much as possible.