Avatars you hate?

Do you hve an avatar that annoys the hell out of you? I have 2...




They usually have that shiteating grin after they take my chips. Then I gotta stare at them for the next hour or so. Look at them. Just grinning and mocking me.

For some reason I hate the gnomes on FT.

On other sites I hate pictures/avatars with babies. annoying...

ander said:

On other sites I hate pictures/avatars with babies. annoying...

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Ditto. I hate the ugly baby and doggie pics on pokerstars so much that I had to turn all avatars off there. But I did see someone with an avatar once that just said something like "(ATTACH UGLY BABY PIC HERE)". Classic.

I never have avatars on because they are way too annoying & distracting being I have ADD/ADHD but I can't stand the clowns. Ever since the movie "Poltergeist" came out & the scene where that clown came out from underneath the sons bed to grab him, I've hated em lol. Bastard clowns!!

ander said:

On other sites I hate pictures/avatars with babies. annoying...

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Stick66 said:

Ditto. I hate the ugly baby and doggie pics on Pokerstars so much that I had to turn all avatars off there. But I did see someone with an avatar once that just said something like "(ATTACH UGLY BABY PIC HERE)". Classic.

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I tilt bad when I get sucked out on (they hit a miracle 2 outter on the river on an all-in bet) and I look up and their avatars a donkey with a stupid smile like if i got outplayed or something. Tilts me beyond belief for some reason!

I turn off all my avatars I think they are distracting. On poker stars though I will check them out just to get some kind of idea about what type of player they mite be.

Yeah I turn them all off too. If anything I wish the tables were even more bare in their set ups.

Everytime a avatar is smiling then I tilt especially after being sucked out on. Personally I hate the gnomes at fulltilts for some reason. But I like the penguins lol

Eyeballs and vampires annoy me.

for some strange reason hockey players always suck out on me lol I HATE THEM!

I turn off avatars as I get too distracted or intimidated by them. I can do without the hassle. Some of em just send you up a tree.

I always leave the avatars on for a couple of reasons...
- it helps to remind me of a particular player... helps for me to associate my reads on them with the pic. & their name.. both.

- & to a far lesser degree, it can 'occassionally' give me a bit of insight into their personality type... thereby getting additional reads as well (some may question or joke about this.... sure it's not the telltale most reliable tell of all tells... but I find it can actually have some significance... ie. the joker/clown avatar - if in micro buyins $5-$20-ish, player is often Lag... and a shytty lag at that...quite often real spewy, bluffs alot in bad spots (bluffs don't make sense, etc.).. especially if they've got a sn like 'Iownu'.. or 'Iownu27' (many with 72 in their sn are Lags as well... usually loose/spewy over-aggro donk lags) I actually have some other profiles for other avatars (call me obsessive, lol).. some I've read about & others that I've also noticed for myself (ie. like the joker/clown one)... 'ninja', 'doberman'..but I've said enough already... can't give it all away, lol.

Oh yah.... I hate the 'joker/clown' avatar. (but I tend to build my stack up from them). THe MikeTyson boxer dude tilts me a bit too.

Avatars on Stars I don't like... 'baby pics.' & other ones with pics. of really goofy looking stuff (disfigured faces, etc.). Some funny ones on there too (saw one of a piece of shit with corn in it the other day.... wtf.. how does Stars allow that one I'll never know?)

ander said:

On other sites I hate pictures/avatars with babies. annoying...

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I agree , I hate the baby pictures. For the most part I click them off on PokerStars.

I hate all of Tilts avatars, that is the main reason I dont like the site much, looks too childish.

Darkphoenix5000 said:

I tilt bad when I get sucked out on (they hit a miracle 2 outter on the river on an all-in bet) and I look up and their avatars a donkey with a stupid smile like if i got outplayed or something. Tilts me beyond belief for some reason!

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You're gonna lose a lot of money if little things like that put you on tilt.

mjdavinci said:

I turn off all my avatars I think they are distracting. On Poker Stars though I will check them out just to get some kind of idea about what type of player they mite be.

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What nonsense, how does an avatar give you a read on someone, I have a CardsChat avatar at stars does that make me an expert, as we all know that CardsChat has the best poker information, and the best members, and if they have a pic of a donkey does that make them a donkey.

bigjoker66 said:

Eyeballs and vampires annoy me.

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Close ups of eyeballs irritate me, so I just right click on the avatar and block the image on stars.

I haven't played on Stars in a while but some on there used to bother me but not enough to tilt me or anything...

I have to turn those ugly crosseyed demented baby pics off, not many others. The airforce looking guy on full tilt pisses me off, so I changed my avatar to him, then it was the zombie slag that would do my swede in.

So I became her.

I may have to reconsider.......

Saw an old post on how to custom avatar on full tilt by copying the avatars folder making your pics the same size then renaming your pic xxxxx.png , whatever it should have been.

Does this change the appearance just for ones own table view or can you get others to see this.

It reminds me of when I left the publishing company I worked for in London, I went round peoples computers on windows 98 and changed the logo.sys file from an orange "it is now safe to turn off your computer" to "Elvis has left the building".

Darkphoenix5000 said:

I tilt bad when I get sucked out on (they hit a miracle 2 outter on the river on an all-in bet) and I look up and their avatars a donkey with a stupid smile like if i got outplayed or something. Tilts me beyond belief for some reason!

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One reason i use this donkey on the pokersites as well as here. Some people just go ballistic

(And i'm a donk)...

Interesting topic, avatars don't really have an influence on me, but I like to think about which ones would tilt others more when I choose mine. My first avatar on FT was the fish, hoping opponents would take me less serious. Then I changed to the frog and now I'm the old lady smoking with the awesome combination of the "I'm better than you" look with the normal emotion and the clueless "I can't believe I won" look with the smiling emotion.

On other sites I don't have an avatar, I want to draw as little attention to me as possible.

the male ninja on FT, when he has the laugh on it's annoying as hell. especially after a lousy play. grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

oh and the zombies in FT, they're UGLY. hahahaha

This one annoyed the hell out of me:



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I hate the shark avator on ftp when it smiles , make me cringe looking at it.

I don't display avatars anymore because I have a bad beat story behind every stinkin' one of them. Seriously, it use to get into my head, so I use the option of not displaying them, lol !!!!!
I wish FT would go to posting your own image as an avatar, cause lusting while I play is more fun. And this way I don't have to run to the bathroom every 5 minutes to look in the mirror !
Hey ho, lets go...
They're all revved up and ready to go.
On a Ramones kick lately !

On pokerstars I used to disable all the ones that would catch my attention at the beginning of the game, now i just disable them completely. On full tilt I could careless about the cartoon avatars.