Identifying Fish

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Hello!🙋‍♀️
Well, there are many options, and I can offer the simplest of them:

1. You can identify the fish by its taste. (if you eat a piece of fish, then you will probably realize that it is not pork). 👍
2. Ask: Are you a fish? If you don't get a response, it's a clear sign that you're talking to a fish (and maybe it's time to see a doctor). 😱
3. Drop the worm, sit still and wait (it is recommended to repeat this process several times). ✅
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whats a fish?
a player that you have the ability to exploit?
Well that depends on your strengths and weakness's
those with opposites will be who you play best against
 
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Bad stats on my HUD mainly to high VPIP and usually a large gap between VPIP and PFR like 52/20 or 35/5. Often none or only a small sample, since fish usually have a short live span. They either play for a while, lose for a while and then stop playing. Or they begin to study and improve, and then they gradually stop being fish. Non-HUD tells include:
  1. Open limping from any other seat than SB
  2. Bet sizes that are either way to small or way to big
  3. Donk betting in bad spots
  4. Showing down hands they should have folded
  5. Posting in cash games
  6. Not starting with a full stack in cash games
  7. Avatar or user name which point to a recreational player
 
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Only an one important note (by my opinon): Everything is relatively...
This means, that Everyone can to be Fish!.. All depends on a concrete situation!
 
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They usually dont bet, unless they have a very strong hand, and they bet small when they do.
All those players limping? Throw your rod and wait for some of them to bait.
There are some fishes that play slightly better, but focus on the worst ones till u learn how to play against the better ones.
 
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They usually dont bet
Exactly!

But they do call most bets even with the weakest hands or draws. 🤣

Unfortunately sometimes they get lucky when hitting that second pair or flush/straight.
 
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They also usually talk a lot about spotting fishes. Or ranges. Or showing how they folded aces.
 
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There's the passive fish and the maniac fish in my opinion. A passive calling station and another with an unbalanced range and disproportionate bet sizes:p
 
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It doesn't happen that a player is 100% a fish. Sometimes we ourselves act like a fish. The more experience a young player gains, the less he looks like a fish.
 
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Sometimes a fish plays at limits that it does not pull and easily falls into a trap.
 
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Hello!🙋‍♀️
Well, there are many options, and I can offer the simplest of them:

1. You can identify the fish by its taste. (if you eat a piece of fish, then you will probably realize that it is not pork). 👍
2. Ask: Are you a fish? If you don't get a response, it's a clear sign that you're talking to a fish (and maybe it's time to see a doctor). 😱
3. Drop the worm, sit still and wait (it is recommended to repeat this process several times). ✅
I've been laughing at this for half an hour now!!!! :) :) :) :D :D I'm crying.
 
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(It can also be easily recognized by its smell, which is quite characteristic)Joking aside: The fish is easy to recognize in poker, even though she has few chips, but she is still in every party + she raises the pot and also bluffs. + She shows the cards at the end of the party.All kidding aside, Fish is easy to spot in poker, even though he's low on chips, he's still in every party + raising the pot and bluffing. + At the end of the party, he presents the cards, but someone even fools around by setting up a profile picture of a fish.
 
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Still my favorite, if you have played 2 or 3 rounds while paying attention & still have been unable to identify the fish; it's you.
 
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Look around the table if u cant recognize the fish its probably U
 
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Do remember this, Identifying a fish is not always that easy and just because you think he is a fish he may not be.

In my earlyer days and in a tournement for my 1st ever win I ran into a fish that just kepy paying me off. I ended up taking him out as well. With this fishs help I went from final table short stach to medium stack then stacked him. Nice right. He was a site pro. Not a fish. Just because you think he is a fish may not mean he is one.
 
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Do remember this, Identifying a fish is not always that easy and just because you think he is a fish he may not be.

In my earlyer days and in a tournement for my 1st ever win I ran into a fish that just kepy paying me off. I ended up taking him out as well. With this fishs help I went from final table short stach to medium stack then stacked him. Nice right. He was a site pro. Not a fish. Just because you think he is a fish may not mean he is one.
And also, perhaps, while you think that he is a fish, he has already found a fish in you.
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Those who posted before me have already described the definition of "fish" well...but I would add this, slightly rewriting the original sentence, that:
"If you've been sitting at a table for 1 hour and you don't know who the fish is, it's you." ;)
 
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It's nonsense to ask who that is a fish or not.
 
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I take notes on the players. And over time we get to know who bluffs a lot.
 
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Hello!🙋‍♀️
Well, there are many options, and I can offer the simplest of them:

1. You can identify the fish by its taste. (if you eat a piece of fish, then you will probably realize that it is not pork). 👍
2. Ask: Are you a fish? If you don't get a response, it's a clear sign that you're talking to a fish (and maybe it's time to see a doctor). 😱
3. Drop the worm, sit still and wait (it is recommended to repeat this process several times). ✅
Hmm… sounds a bit fishy.
 
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If you don't know who the fish at the table is, it means that the fish is you :)
I think, in order to identify the fish, you just need to carefully observe the game of your opponents and analyze their decisions.
 
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