If you google that term, you’ll it is a popular headline across the broadest of spectrum. Throw in an avatar here and there and your pet pseudonym at the tables and we even more varied. But, sitting at the tables we run into the same ol’ cast of characters.
I just left such a table. BTW, a winner for the fifth in a row. Only one nice win in the lot but its again moving in the right direction. All the gang though seemed present. Even when I’d not seen that particular player before his clone had been keeping the seat warm for him.
A regular at the tables is the guy who never passes betting the scare card. He’s never seen an ace he did have the pair to in the pockets it seems. Typically, he bets it at the other three to five players in the hand and they all call. Why? Could it be he’s doing it for the fifth time in a row?
He’s either the same guy or his twin that has to bet that 358 rainbow board that’s in front of him. Hands that get checked for a couple of streets seem ripe for his steal. Makes a lot of sense to try to steal a dollar or so pot with a fifty-cent or a dollar bet. A cheap pot will usually have a tight guy with a premium pair willing to run it out.
Then there is the suicide bluffer. He gets this wild hair and raises the guy that completes because he has paint up. He bets every street and then shows that ace high hand. Hell, occasionally he even wins when he runs into somebody as pig headed as he is. The point is the win or loss but that your betting exposes the hand for all to see. You only option from there on out is to bring the good when you bet. And, that isn’t part of their makeup. They blithely bet those 6′s up the next time out.
There’s the new guy that hasn’t learned to value his hands. From a ratty two pair to a nice flush, he’ll ignore the other boards. It is especially dumb when the pot is still multi-way. Not only will they happily cap against a paired player but they’ll do it on the next street. Other people make hands too.
Live and dead mean nothing to many. You see three queens at the door and will often see two of those people participate. If there is one thing to understand at stud, it is having live cards. Some people just can’t lay down what would be a decent hand when all their card have a partner in the door. You’re really make it hard on yourself and giving a tell when you steadily play such obvious situations consistently.
The pot head is often all of the above. What he adds is a total disregard for the risk-reward. He sees no difference in dollar pot or a ten-dollar one. He’s got a three-straight and a brick and ignores he’s an 8:1 dog. He’s the most wonderful opponent
I’m curious what limit you are playing on PokerStars and FullTilt to make the comparison that FullTilt players chase more. In the micros on PokerStars, the whole field is waiting for the sound of the gun so the sprint can begin.
Well there are often 5-6 seeing the bringin on both sites. I see more people folding at Stars. Of course tables will vary but Stars folks seem willing to abandon a hand before the river. It is a generality but I’d also say that Stars players are more aggressive and I see more early capping or capping that ignores late board potentials. I recently had a guy that capped the last two streets with me. He had an obvious flush and I had a pair showing and had made the boat.
The 2-4 often has lower participation but even that isn’t a given. It often averages in the upper 40% there although something in the 20% range is more likely. .25-.50 pretty much plays as a crap shoot but I’d say that Tilt still plays closer to a .04-.08 monkeyfest than Stars.
If you see them similar, that is a distinct possibility. Those tables can play like a self-fulfilling prophecy where the pot odds make the suckouts a legit pastime.