Some people play certain stakes or certain tourney buy-ins all the time and get a feel for everyone who regularly plays those levels. Then, when someone they’ve never seen before, especially if they take notes on everyone, they consider them some kind of newbie. However, it is clearly a mistake to assume someone is a poker newbie just because they’ve entered your game level for the first time. Even if you look them up on Sharkscope and there’s little to no info on them that can’t be used as an indication of their experience level. For all you know they could have been playing for years on other sites. Or maybe they have years-worth of face-to-face winnings. Assuming someone is a newbie just because there are no stats on them can get you into a whole lot of trouble.
I've blocked my stats at shark-player scope for all of my accounts at most of the poker rooms.
Recently had a discussion in a freeroll with one regular freeroller.
Since my nickname is "fisharkey" he started to call me a complete fish and provided evidences, he wrote notes on my range and play style for some time and during our discussion he stated that i'm a fish because i was 3betting pre-flop with hands like 56o. Well, in unimportant
freerolls I usually play GTO-Donk style, so maybe his notes on me have been correct from some point of view.
But our conversation has ended when I invited that guy to join me at the final table of 5Eur buy-in tourney where I was sitting at the same time, or play cash HU for 100-200Euro and told him the names of the tables where I was waiting for him.:flute:
Suddenly that freeroller shark felt that it's a really cold ocean and he must swim back to his lake.:burnout:
I think I made a mistake by doing this. It would be better to answer this: "3betting is too small, I usually bet 7 or more big blinds when I have a feeling that I will win big":icon_joke
You know, some of my biggest wins at the cash tables happened because I've represented a image of complete fish. Wasted several 80 cent buy-ins at NL2 table to call all-ins with hands like 9-4s, spent 2.4Euro to buy an image of an idiet on a table with just 1 reg who had info on me... By the end of next hour had 23euro there, investing 3.2... I left the table because 2 more regs have joined it and just 1 fish was sittiing there, but suddenly he switched to tight style.
Another example was at NL10 table, Sunday evening one of 9 player tables was full of new players with just 1 reg and 1 free spot, I've joined with 4Euro buy-in, spent 2 buy-ins for going and calling pre-flop all-in with trashy connectors. Bought a fish image for 8Euro... 3rd rebuy for 4Euro and several hours later I'm leaving the table with 85Euro, just because all fish has left and regs who waited in the line have filled 70% of the table.
At the vip freerolls where we all know each other for long time i'm exploiting my image of tight player and often win small pots preflop by 3betting some of the players that i know for a long time, i 3bet with nay hand in any position, just because I know that i have to fold to 4bet or all-in or will win the pot right now, in 80% of cases they fold their AJ, just because of the notes they have on me.
GTO strategy is good.
