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Yes it does, table image is one of the most important things to consider when making a move at any poker table, online or live.

[Thinkerbell]

I think table image is important both online and live. If people know you to be a solid player, they are more likely to take your raises or all-ins seriously. If it's difficult to push you off a pot, they may not try to do it.

I think my table image worked against me in last night's league game. Every time I was the big blind, I was getting good cards--KQ, AJ, etc. And everybody was folding, even the small blind! I had to laugh, but it was frustrating getting decent hands and not being able to play them. I wanted to make some sort of comment like "come on, you lily-livered varmints! Let's play poker!" Then of course, when I was getting 2, 7 offsuit, everybody was in the pot before me. Just not my night.

[Lytspeed]

Table image is definately important, in either game style. Other players will base their perceptions of you on the image you portray, and that includes both your playing style and your personality. Take, for example, the password stealer who was playing in our tournaments (bigpimpin***.) He was an aggressive, insulting player. As a result, no one liked him, and everyone wanted to take him out of the tournament. When they had the cards to back them up, they responded to him aggressively, and Thinkerbell was lucky enough to have the satisfaction of knocking him out the last time.

[truushot]

Fubr said it best. Image is most important when you play with the same players often. If you cultivated the image of being tight aggressive you can use it to steal more. If your pegged as a loose player you will get more action but from a range of hands that you will have a harder time playing it that way. You can't bet on getting action on your good hands as well as your bad hands. You will have many more decisions to make after the flop. Which is better? Well from a freeroll stand point you might very well be better off playing loose if the site doesn't dump the sitters. The loose players will just get more free chips and in the long run it will become to overcome there chip leads. On sites that remove the sitters playing tight can be more effective.

[rambojr03]

Originally Posted by fubarcdn

If you play the same people all the time tasble image is quite important. In the freeroll communities that I play in you get to know 15-20 players that usually make it to the last 10% of most every tournament and you get to know their betting pattern so you can guess what they have by the way they play the hand.

You make a good point Fubar, but some of us realize how our opponents perceive our table image to be, and use this against them. In other words, if our opponents always have us on a big hand, does it really truly matter what hand we have, or raise with? I attribute a lot of my success to this fact. I convince people I play a certain way everytime, and will sometimes play much looser because of it.

[gn2056]

Table image is huge in online tournaments to be honest it is the difference between making the money and perhaps winning the tournament, in sitngos you want to pay attention the whole time to players, where as in larger tournaments such as freerolls you may be moved too much, however I see alot of the same players over and over again, and I usually can catch the right players bluffing because of their previous play, I also know which players are calling stations, and I shouldnt invest a lot of chips into bluffing unless I want to get caught on a small bluff to set them up for later. At the final table you will likely be there a while and this is when getting a decent idea of how a player plays makes all the difference. If you get heads up with an aggressive player you have to make an effort to play more aggressive or he will walk right over you. Also if you have an overly tight player short handed or heads up you want to try and steal the pots early and get them frustrated to where they finally make a stand when you have them beat. anyways could go on and on but knowing your competition is a huge difference other wise your just playing your hand and guessing too much.

[IvanDrago]

On titan poker people there i meet are normally donk, as Phil Hellmuth said in the 2005 main event, these guys cant even spell poker let alone table image.

I played in a multi tournament yesterday it was a 10$ rebuy and the only two hands i played and showed to get good table image and respect were KK's. But later on i did my normal 4x raise BB and the guy next to me called my raise with A4 off suit, and im sitting with AJ suited. Flop comes down 3 A K, and i bet 75% of the pot, and he called. Turn came a Q so i through another 75% of the pot out and he still called me and the river came out a 4... I just dont get how some people can play poker and just not udnerstand table image. I've laid down Ak and JJ or QQ sometimes to specific players because when they raised or reraised i knew to get out of the hand. AS for other sites go I dont reallly know because i've been focusing on playing Titan right now because its an easy clean up.

-Drago

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