Sometimes when I'm playing poker someone will start teasing me because I'm playing tight. "What's the matter, your Ace deuce wasn't suited? What are you waiting for? You haven't played a hand in an hour! Are you a professional or something?"
Blah, blah, Ha, Ha, Ha!
To counteract this, usually before the teasing starts, I will take on a flamboyant nature. I'll start teasing other players for playing tight. I'll make a lot of noise when I enter a pot, even if I haven't played a hand in a while. "Here I come again, I raise!" I'll have a few drinks, knock over chips, pretend to make mistakes. Nothing as obvious as the drunken tourist bit, but I'll make a good show of it. I'll pretend to raise in the dark after I look at my cards or I'll call by "accident" or if I lose I'll say something like, "I totally misread my hand. I should pay more attention. I thought I had a flush."
I'll play exactly the same, but I seem to play looser and this helps get me action and loosens up the table.
There is nothing worse than sitting at the table next to some nit that wants to talk poker strategy all night. I play poker to have fun and relax and maybe get lucky and win a little bit. After all, nobody in their right mind would play poker for a living.
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exactly, I love befriending the fish. I like people so that helps and I like drinking and like being around drunks. I don't drink when playing poker but love the excitement a drunk brings to the table - not to mention their money.
recently, I watched a fish go on an incredible win. After the woman was at the table about 8 hours. She was up about 2 grand and playing everything. A guy sat down who thought he was a poker god. He started critiquing every hand she played. Who am I going to be friends with, the cute woman with huge racks (of chips) and no poker skill or the guy quoting from books and slightly balding. I proceeded to be rude and scarcastic to him and took every opprotunity to make the game less fun for him. Within 20 minutes he was gone and I was able to spend the next few hours sitting to the left of a beautiful fish.
I ended up losing that night and did not get her number, but still I think it was the right play.
Spew
My favorite is when a huge drunk/fish collects a huge stack, eight other players stick around til dawn waiting to bust the guy, and the one who finally gets his chips is drunk/fish #2.
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