PokerStars Badges? Do you show them?

[oleg8519]

I only have eights from my badges and I show them. I don't think this is valuable information

 

[German629]

I will say merely and directly: any badge doesn't any sense for me. I try to concentrate only on Game! That's all!

 

[dreamer13]

Icon display is optional. From them, you can immediately determine whether a player is a grinder. Why someone should show opponents that he is a grinder is a separate question. Perhaps the best solution if you have a long distance behind you is to show a badge with pocket deuces (if you wish, you can put a badge of a lower value) to appear as a weak regular who is insanely proud of his distance of 5,000 hands on pokerstars. I think it’s not worth bragging, you need to hide everything .

 

[G0930]

I don't care about any badges but I have played against players with EPT badges who literally don't understand basic strategy and players with 22 who are super strong.

Ya me too , baffling how they got an EPT title ...
Guess some people have all the luck cause it couldn't have been skill.
And If they do have skill they certainly didn't show it to me when they were on my table.

Some on the other hand with such a badge are super strong and skilled players..

 

[Sebbour]

I have one question about badges.

If I want to see other people badges I have to turn on my badge feature. And when I turn it on and select nothing 🚫 (because I don't want to show them any badge) what other players see? Do they see nothing (as I do not have the option activated) or they see blank badge?

 

[Xcalibur]

I'm showing how cool I think this is

 

[NotADonk]

So a couple weeks ago I made a post asking about "throwables" and if you use them and why. I got a bunch of great responses......

So that lead me to think about badges. Do you show your highest badge? Do you show any? Do you ever change the one you show? Does someone elses badge make you play them a little different.

I have noticed a lot of skilled players posting lower badges then what I believe they really are and have proven this in my note taking on them, then playing them again later when they have upped their badge display. I will respect someones play who a really high badge more than I will someone who doesn't show or shows a low badge. Or better yet if they show a tournament winner badge.

I personally have never shown mine. My badge is stuck and has not updated, I am probably 2 behind what it is really supposed to be. I think if I won a tournament and had the option to display that badge I probably would at times. More of a badge of honour than anything I guess.

I have only fairly recently joined pokers so all I have at the moment is a red dot, which I think means I am half way to a 22 badge. I think if I had a high badge I would downgrade it or turn it off.

 

[moularaki]

no need to show off
better play it low

 

[MK_]

The badges only show the number of real money hands a person has played.... has nothing to do with how well or poorly the hands were played, but if people want to read something into that I say let em😎...

 

[valen.bs.95]

I never put up badges. I think they are useless 😀