how to know that someone is a sharks at the table??

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sometime i confuse to call someone sharks or just fish like me,bcouse even someone that we can say he is very good poker player can be very bad player in some moment,the question is,is it shraks if he play wors hand and win? tight style is a sharks,if he good in bluffing then he is sharks?? or aggresive is safe to say he is sharks... so help me here my friend... i hope you guys understand my english or atleast you know my point in this thread thx
 
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If their playing low limit they're not a shark. Unless it's me of course.:D
 
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you can tell it's a shark by the way he plays...if he plays a lot of hands like K8 or 95 or Q3 or any other not so good hans and he invests many chips to those hands even if he dos not have a big stack you have a shark
 
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you can tell it's a shark by the way he plays...if he plays a lot of hands like K8 or 95 or Q3 or any other not so good hans and he invests many chips to those hands even if he dos not have a big stack you have a shark

Now i'm confused, this explanation sounds also like a fish or am I wrong?
 
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Now i'm confused, this explanation sounds also like a fish or am I wrong?
Yeah, I think he misspoke. Still, don't get confused by the hand that shows up. Sometimes there are good reasons for playing bad hands, it's really more situational than anything. I'll sometimes raise the button with any two cards and follow up with a cbet (Literally any two, I don't even look!) and when I get called, for whatever reason I might have to show down a real dog. If I'm getting 9:1 or better to complete from the SB I'll call with anything.
As I said, situational. But I can't remember the last time I played crap from early position, it's just not worth it, so if you think someone might be a shark and then they show up with K3s UTG you know you've got a spot at the table.

So here's what to look for in a good player.
*Rarely if ever open limps.
*Avoids playing hands OOP (out of position)
*CBets often after making a pre-flop raise
*3 bets without AA or KK
*Usually folds to 3 bets OOP
*Twirls their chips really well (Just kiding!)
*Plays with a full stack
*Folds a lot.
*No snide remarks after losing a hand. (Good players have been there and understand that getting sucked out on is just the way it goes)
 
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Yeah, I think he misspoke. Still, don't get confused by the hand that shows up. Sometimes there are good reasons for playing bad hands, it's really more situational than anything. I'll sometimes raise the button with any two cards and follow up with a cbet (Literally any two, I don't even look!) and when I get called, for whatever reason I might have to show down a real dog. If I'm getting 9:1 or better to complete from the SB I'll call with anything.
As I said, situational. But I can't remember the last time I played crap from early position, it's just not worth it, so if you think someone might be a shark and then they show up with K3s UTG you know you've got a spot at the table.

So here's what to look for in a good player.
*Rarely if ever open limps.
*Avoids playing hands OOP (out of position)
*CBets often after making a pre-flop raise
*3 bets without AA or KK
*Usually folds to 3 bets OOP
*Twirls their chips really well (Just kiding!)
*Plays with a full stack
*Folds a lot.
*No snide remarks after losing a hand. (Good players have been there and understand that getting sucked out on is just the way it goes)


Many thanks Four Dogs
thanks to you i'm a little bit smarter
 
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There are no sharks or fishes until u play for long time. Than u'll have no such questions. It is rhetorical.

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I think the player-sharkmakes a aggressive bet and often beats out other players
 
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Originally Posted by adrianB1989
you can tell it's a shark by the way he plays...if he plays a lot of hands like K8 or 95 or Q3 or any other not so good hans and he invests many chips to those hands even if he dos not have a big stack you have a shark


Now i'm confused, this explanation sounds also like a fish or am I wrong
Well, a shark is a big, stupid fish. :D

As to the original question, otters recognize other otters pretty quickum. That's when the Unwritten Code of Otters kicks in: you stay out of my pots and I'll stay out of yours. It's more profitable to concentrate on eating the fish.

As for how to recognize: is your candidate player positionally aware? Does he seem to do most of his raising from late positions while opening few hands up front? (In live games does the dealer constantly need to remind him it's his bug blind? If he doesn't know he's the blind, he doesn't know his position.) Fish play the same hands from different positions the same way. When he enters a pot, does he come in with a raise? Open limping is something otters do seldom, and on those occasions where they do this, it's with a hand that can stand a raise. Fish are always open limping.

So you see any horrendously -EV calls? Fish will call with the damnedest hands for reasons known only to themselves. What do they do with single pair hands? Do they overplay in deep stack situations, or do they play them carefully: do they pot control? Check back turns? Go for thin value river bets? Do they aggressively attack short stacks with single pair hands?

Do you simply feel uncomfortable playing this player? That could be a sign for a fish that there's an otter in hot pursuit.
 
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Yeah, I think he misspoke. Still, don't get confused by the hand that shows up. Sometimes there are good reasons for playing bad hands, it's really more situational than anything. I'll sometimes raise the button with any two cards and follow up with a cbet (Literally any two, I don't even look!) and when I get called, for whatever reason I might have to show down a real dog. If I'm getting 9:1 or better to complete from the SB I'll call with anything.
As I said, situational. But I can't remember the last time I played crap from early position, it's just not worth it, so if you think someone might be a shark and then they show up with K3s UTG you know you've got a spot at the table.

So here's what to look for in a good player.
*Rarely if ever open limps.
*Avoids playing hands OOP (out of position)
*CBets often after making a pre-flop raise
*3 bets without AA or KK
*Usually folds to 3 bets OOP
*Twirls their chips really well (Just kiding!)
*Plays with a full stack
*Folds a lot.
*No snide remarks after losing a hand. (Good players have been there and understand that getting sucked out on is just the way it goes)

Very well said
 
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watch carefully for the game and all will become clear soon
 
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If he is a "shark" then he adapts and gets smarter as time goes. and is ALWAYS looking for the next big hand.

Kind of impossible to locate one online.
 
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I found it easy i think. They dont take much risks and pay blinds for nothing or just to try. Waiting their position and choose the right time is one of the things which I decide the player from the " moron " . If the player mades 2-3 good plays on time and tooks the pot after passive plays, i get that he knows when and how to play with better chances his hands.
 
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when you follow all of the table and on the players and concentrate on the cards in your hands and on your table clear who can bluff but you have to have instinct to catch
 
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sharks on 100K hands
data balanced
and shows steady profit

means near perfect or balanced
so just avoid them.
 
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along the lines of action and the size of bet sizing!
 
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