Table Image Question: How Should I Tell the Players I got into the ME?

[danielkomen]

My buddy and i were talking about this in the airport today.

What do you think is the best story to tell your tablemates as how you got into the ME? I'm quite successful at the MTT online but people aren't going to know who i am.

My buddy loves to talk it up the table and take control and he said he's going to tell them he bought straight in (even though I backed him during the qualifiying process). I think this image would fit him well.

I however am thinking the opposite. I'm fairly quite in terms of mannerisms at the table and am thinking about saying my dad as a graduation gift from grad school backed me in the event. Act like the money is so much and I'm not making any moves on anyone. But also at the same time not projecting the image as some young internet punk or some internet donkey.

But I did qualify through FullTilt. I might have problems with this story if I wear my FT gear.

I'm just curious as to whether you think the story you tell (whether true or not) as to how you go into the ME matters.

I'll probably just say i qualified online but you can say that and project that you are quite successfu; or on a one time freeroll.

[cardcore]

tell them you won a 5K Coinflip

[Dids]

This so won't matter in the least.

[i am run]

i wouldnt talk to anyone.. even cardplayer. i wouldnt let anyone know who i was or my background...

be an unknown so that everyone in the room will be questioning.. whos that guy who in the chip lead?

[DVaut1]

If you intend on playing tight, here's your story: You were on a bender playing games in the pit all night, and you miraculously ran the last few hundred bucks left in your bank account to $10k by 9am Friday morning. When asked how you accomplished such a feat, let the table know how Yo and Any Seven are your lucky bets on the craps table.

Continue on, telling the table that your buddies thought it would be a larf if you took all the money you made and bought into the Main Event; let them know you never back-down to a challenge, so you walked over to the tournament area and bought into the ME on a whim. Get a printout from the sportsbook of the lines for that days games and leave it on the felt with your other things...spend the first few minutes of the event ignoring the cards and remaining oblivious to the chaos around you while you pretend to study the sports line...after a few minutes, yell to whoever is there sweating you that they should run back to the sportsbook and put your last $500 on a 10-way parlay involving that day's baseball action, and see if anyone else on the rail will lend you $100 to put on the Generals that night in their matchup against the Globetrotters -- make sure to note "you have a feeling". Then proceed to order two Jack & Cokes from the cocktail waitress, because you like to double-fist your drinks after you've been up gambling for 72 hours straight.

No way anyone [censored] with your blinds after that.

[Kevmath]

Say Jeff Madsen taught you how to play.

[kutuz_off]

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Say you taught Jeff Madsen how to play.

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FYP. Obviously, he's staking you now that he's rich.

[dfbuzzbeater]

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If you intend on playing tight, here's your story: You were on a bender playing games in the pit all night, and you miraculously ran the last few hundred bucks left in your bank account to $10k by 9am Friday morning. When asked how you accomplished such a feat, let the table know how Yo and Any Seven are your lucky bets on the craps table.

Continue on, telling the table that your buddies thought it would be a larf if you took all the money you made and bought into the Main Event; let them know you never back-down to a challenge, so you walked over to the tournament area and bought into the ME on a whim. Get a printout from the sportsbook of the lines for that days games and leave it on the felt with your other things...spend the first few minutes of the event ignoring the cards and remaining oblivious to the chaos around you while you pretend to study the sports line...after a few minutes, yell to whoever is there sweating you that they should run back to the sportsbook and put your last $500 on a 10-way parlay involving that day's baseball action, and see if anyone else on the rail will lend you $100 to put on the Generals that night in their matchup against the Globetrotters -- make sure to note "you have a feeling". Then proceed to order two Jack & Cokes from the cocktail waitress, because you like to double-fist your drinks after you've been up gambling for 72 hours straight.

No way anyone [censored] with your blinds after that.

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My god, since I'm sooo the opposite of this I would love to [censored] do something like this!!!

[mlagoo]

tell them youre a wealthy, but slightly effeminate hitman

[Dromar]

I think all the above are good responses if anyone asks you your story.

If you wan't, you could switch between them and use a different one every time you get asked.