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Does Appearance Matter?

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180 posts · member since Aug 2019
3mo ago

This is not exactly an in game strategy question, so I apologize in advance if this is not the right place for this ques

23 March 2026 at 11:59 AM
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adonson avatar
1027 posts · member since Jun 2013
3mo ago

In my cardroom, everyone wears hoodies. I used to dress dapper but stood out. My wife got me a hoodie for Christmas. Now I fit in.

Strategy #1 is help people enjoy losing their money. No one wants to play with a deaf screenager.

ntnBO avatar
390 posts · member since May 2007
3mo ago

Why would you want to fit in with a bunch of lazily dressed droolers? Reminds me of something heard in junior high school.

You can get along with people without imitating them.

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1724 posts · member since Dec 2014
3mo ago

Summer = flip flops, shorts, T, sunglasses, headphones

Winter = shoes, pants, hoodies, sunglasses, headphones

People are annoying me all the time...

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1724 posts · member since Dec 2014
3mo ago
by Stupidbanana

Summer = flip flops, shorts, T, sunglasses, headphones

Winter = shoes, pants, hoodies, sunglasses, headphones

People are annoying me all the time...


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Javanewt avatarJavanewt
3mo ago
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It’s funny that some of us worry about these things like appearance. Does this put us at a disadvantage against all those other people that don’t give a sh-t.

In regular life, it shouldn't matter, and good for the people who don't give a sh-t!

At the poker table, it depends on if you care that your appearance affects how others play against you and if so, what outcome you are looking for. If Perrone66 wants everyone to think he's a TAG grinder who always has it, he should keep wearing the hoodie and headphones 😉
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docvail
3mo ago

Personally I think it's a -EV mistake to wear headphones or use ear buds at the table. Also a mistake to be focused on your phone or a tablet between hands. Lots of reasons...

1. You should be paying attention to the game, developing reads on your opponents, watching showdowns, looking for tells, etc.

2. It's annoying AF when the guy wearing headphones pulls one off to ask what the bet is. Just pay attention and stop holding up the game. It's an obvious tell that you have a hand when you do that.

3. The fish are there to have a good time. It's up to the regs to make the game fun for the recs. Talk to them. Engage in some table banter. Tell them "nice hand", "good call", whatever. The fish don't mind losing as much, and will play longer, and keep dumping, as long as they're having fun.

4. Observant opponents will take note that you're not paying attention to the game, and assume you're just nitting it up. If the recs notice, the regs for sure notice.

As a reg, I absolutely despise seeing other regs playing from inside their own personal cone of silence. They're bad for the game. They don't just hurt their own win rate. They hurt the win rate of every reg at the table, to the extent the fish feel like they're just dead money and being targeted by one or more grinders.

Poker is supposed to be a social game. Sitting at the table, but engrossed in your own little cocoon is scummy....