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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 1797519, member: 23910"] Great - now we've actually got something concrete to talk about. This is the one that I really don't like, and which I think is particularly -EV. The smiley face or wink doesn't change the fact that you're telling bad players what they're doing wrong. What makes it worse, IMO, is that the positive result would probably otherwise have reinforced their behaviour - by making those kind of comments you're making them feel bad about their bad play, when they probably otherwise would have felt good about it. The problem I see here is that the behaviour is very card-dependent. It's certainly possible that it will encourage people to call lighter against you, which is a beautiful thing when you've got a better hand than them. But you don't have control over when you get your good hands, so what happens when you set this up then go card dead? I see this as being a particularly big problem if we're talking about tournaments, as usually retaining fold equity is a much bigger advantage than having opponents that will call you light (because once you get short you're going to want to get away with steals much more often than you're going to want to get called light). If we gain light calls but lose our ability to steal, I'm thinking we're getting the bad end of the deal in a lot of cases. Against reasonable / observant opponents the second behaviour is also exploitable, unless you're balancing by also pushing with bad hands some of the time when you say "see you muppets later". Granted, that's probably not an issue if you're only playing micro stakes, but it does mean it's a 'strategy' with limited usefulness. Observant opponents should be able to work out that you'll only ever say that when you've got a good hand, and therefore won't give you action unless they're holding a monster themselves. [/QUOTE]

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