Sunglasses at the table

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How much does it affect your ability to play against a player wearing sunglasses (dark glasses) at a live table. As for me there are many more ways to read a person other that their eyes and such. What other tells do you see at the tables?
 
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One word immediately springs to mind when I see a guy at my table wearing shades.

At the risk of causing offence I wont repeat it here!! :)
 
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Funny how it doesn't matter whether or not I wear my glasses online, but I have some really cool shades I wear to keep you from seeing my eyes anyway.:rolleyes:
 
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sunglasses at table

I play mostly online so I just wear them for practice.:)
 
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I only play online. So I dark glasses never wear.
 
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you can just feel like in online poker, it may do you for a second before opening the last card you already know it?)))
 
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If he wears sunglasses then there are other tells , check https://www.cardschat.com/poker-tells.php for info :) . I personally check his hands'movements whether their speed is changed or not everytime , if they 're still or cannot , the shoulders , also the mouth and neck if he's licking his lips , of course the other charachteristics (his clothing , his speech ,the betting patterns last but not least ) .
:)
 
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I play online! I don't need sunglasses! :D
 
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The glare from my opponents massive chip stack usually means i need to wear sunglasses.
 
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The guys with the sunglasses are actually giving off more by wearing them than they think. Its the same guy that wears the hoodie if allowed and they give off the tell that they are used to playing online,translating to being more agressive in certain spots.
 
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When I first played a few online two ornaments I experimented with wearing sunglasses and not wearing them LOL I found I was very uncomfortable wearing them so I just stop doing it. I don't know if it really matters because a lot of times people thought I was bluffing when I wasn't and vice a versa. So I don't know if wearing the glasses would have made any difference or not actually I was fidgeting around in my chair a lot one time and that made them all think I was bluffing LOL but I really wasn't I was just very uncomfortable:):)
 
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I occasionally wear sunglasses when playing live but the only reason is the lighting is so bad in my local casino that I end up with a massive headache at the end of a long session.

Invariably I get at least a few comments from people about it - I just ignore them and think, "Yeah, I need to worry about giving off tells from a bunch of people that play every hand to the river."

Needless to say the motivation behind actions and the actions themselves are often different. :p
 
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I used to wear them all the time.
Then I realised you can adjust the brightness on your laptop screen ... :p
 
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I think fair use props like glasses and caps in live poker, each has its own style. It makes the game interesting.
 
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I have a pair of sun lenses but wear them only when I look at my wife.
 
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while the glasses you are in the comfort zone
 
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doesn't affect me at all. I sometimes use my prescription shades if the lighting is bothering me, that's the only reason tho
 
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I play only online games not need of sunglasses there
 
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I suppose it a matter of personal taste if you play live poker I only play on line so it don't matter to me
 
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I don't think that sunglasses have the ability to help somebody in poker, cause I don't think that Ivey,Brunson or Negreanu use sunglasses, playing poker so it is not necessarily to be the best.
 
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I just play online poker, so I dont know :p
 
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i dont mind if people wear them whatever makes you comfortable
 
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