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sportserh
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Hey guys, I use full tilt poker and over the months I have noticed more and more people betting weird amounts. For example someone bets 199 instead of 200 and i was wondering how they do it. Help?
Hey guys, I use full tilt poker and over the months I have noticed more and more people betting weird amounts. For example someone bets 199 instead of 200 and i was wondering how they do it. Help?
do you see this as an advantage cuz i like to see the lager chips like 500 and 1000 look taller
I just like betting weird numbers personally.
you are wondering how?
they just type the bet amount in and hit enter.
I like betting consecutive numbers sometimes just to throw people off -- ie. 333, 777, 2222.
I think the majority of people doing this are just playing meta-games with themselves and not the rest of the table.
In my experience, people do this to make a weird bet so that people will be curious/suspicious and look them up.
Then they keep doing it later, to disguise what they had already done.
There isn't much thought in it, but calling the first weird-sized bet is dangerous unless you have a good hand. But after that first bet, feh... don't worry about it.
One bets weird numbers because sometimes 100 chips is not always the most optimal bet size to get the most + chip EV result. Sometimes it is 106. But alas this is definitely not how most people think.
3. The visual chip effect. Larger amounts of chips looks more intimidating. Whether this actually has an effect on other people's decision making, I have no idea.
Now be 100% honest, are you able to do ev calculations in the 15 seconds availiable that are accurate to 6 chips?
Its correct, but do you actually do this? If so how do you type in your opponents assumed range so quickly and then run perform an EV run in the time given?
If you do this via pen and paper, why are you wasting your talents playing poker?
It just isnt possible to be this accurate in the time given.
you are wondering how?
they just type the bet amount in and hit enter.
If you are wondering why, it's to intimidate, make your bet look biger and some feel it screws with people trying to do poker math.