Losing Money To Win

As a strategy do you deliberately lose hands to set up play later? For example in lower blind limits will you throw 100 chips on the beer hand and lose to show it? You know better than to do that, but will you do that to set it up in the minds of the table that you are an ass? And use that to your advantage later on in the game.

Donking chips for table image is a tough way to do it. One who strongly ascribes to it is Mike Caro. He states that when he sits down, his goal is to lose 1,000 dollars in 30 minutes. He then sits back and collects all night.

On a side note, in rebuy tournaments if you feel you are better than everyone at your table, and your table won't break up soon. Donk chips into the game, and rebuy a bunch of times. Now, your table has many times more money on it than the others. Now you get all the chips back. When your table breaks you go to the next or final table with a huge chip stack. One that you artificially built by buying in 39999 times.

Daniel Negreanu did this, he holds the record for rebuys. He bought in so many times, that he had to come in second place to break even... He won the tournament making a small profit! lol.

Bill

I wouldn't say I intentionally lose but I will play some hands early in a tourny that I wouldn't play later. I figure if I can catch a straight or a flush early and make a bunch, thats great. If I dont catch and show some questionably play for cheap, that's great too. I only do this in tournies though, not in ring games.

I don't play many tournaments with stacks deep enough to be able to justify that, really. I've done something like it at ring games occasionally, but it's rare. The only time I'd find it worth it then is if I have an unknown who sits down at my left - if he's aggressive and I want it confirmed that he's also loose, I might act calling station for one hand, in part paying for information, in part to slow him down on bluffing me from that point on.

But still, I'd have to feel confident that we'd be playing the next 100+ hands together.

And of course, that information that I pay for risk being worthless: He might be advertising as he sits down at the table. But people who advertise as loose and then turn into rocks are fairly obvious most of the time.

I must say, in cash games of the past i have played, i have played rag hands just to give the inpression of being a crazy. If you can manage it (Without losing to much of your stack) i would say it DOES help you later in the game, as early table image does seem to stick in there heads.

Fugs.