Hollywood Online

[Hydrotrip]

I wanted to start a thread about table image in the online arena. I know that as a young guy at a live table, it is easier to get paid off from middle aged or elderly opponents who have a general preconception that poker players in my age range are overly aggressive. This usually leads to a limited range of fold equity and a higher expectation for overbets and hyper aggression with heavy holdings. However, online it seems to be a different story as there is no way to portray your age and alleged wrecklessness through the computer except for betting patterns and chat log. I would like to hear different adaptations the players on NDN make to alter their table image into one that is advantageous and lucrative. Since behind the monitor we are incognito, it is difficult to transcend these personas into cyberspace. Besides going into the timebank, personality in the chat log, alias and table image, there is little way to exploit a conceptual 'Hollywood' into gameplay. How do you Hollywood online?

[KaciBlakely]

Okay to be honest I don't ever chat at a table. I'm there to play poker and try to win.

An occasional nh is one thing, and if I'm not playing at the ndn tables or at an ndn poker tourney I really try to just turn the chat box off or not pay attention to it because I don't need to know what they are talking about. I just need to be playing my cards.

I find this very helpful in maintaining a table image because I'm not talking about meaningless crap and not talking at all so it gives off a serious vibe and when it's my time to bet I usually do and it's an instant fold.

In my experience that is what has happened at least.

Do you think this is good? It's just what I do and I'd like to know.

[freeringo]

I change my table personna every hour and everyday.
I am constantly being deceptive in all sorts of ways.
Through betting patterns and chatting, I only give off information I want you to see.
Poker is a chess game.
You got to think 10 moves ahead.
My secrets out now.
I'm a hillbilly I tell you.

[Hydrotrip]

I usually do not chat either. Mostly because I am playing enough tables to stay entertained. My attention span to online poker still needs some serious work. I definitely agree that most chat in the log is absolutely meaningless and it usually used mostly by the dead money. However, I think there must be some way to take advantage of the chat log to create a wreckless image that some players find lucrative. There is a good friend of mine who I play with at the riverboat, who never fails to sit down and get the blood boiling of every player in the ring. He plays fast, talks fast, is active in every pot, has a lot of gamble, and even goes as far to taunt and criticize the players to get them a little bit fired up. He usually sits down with a minimum buy-in, because the nature of his gameplay is to quickly explode or bust and rebuy. I can confidently say that he has done very well for himself with this methodology. And we was the inspiration for the onset of this thread, for his antics do not yeild such significant profitability in the online arena, for most players pay little attention to the chat log and are preoccupied with multiple tables, as aformentioned. My brother came up with the concept of online ring games where webcams and audio chat are mandatory to sit down, but I can forsee potential abuse and difficulty enforcing legitimate set-ups. Can you see any other way to transcend these live strategies into the online arena?