Pretending to be a Fish.

Awesome, that's also my main playstyle, but the result is being eliminated early because I was too impatient and frustrated when being crushed.

ExMoroccan said:

Title says it all. im not nearly a good player but i find myself winning some games pretending the be a fish.
i found this online and it actually has a name its reverse image.
do you ever find yourself doing this ?

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I'm actually the opposite

I see no reason to pretend to be a fish in most part of the situations. It may only work sometimes in very specific spots against opponents that doesn't know you and your true play style.

If you are a good player, you are way more unpredictable than the weaker players, because you can adapt yourself to each game and situation to try to find some exploit to use against each opponent.

Strong players can have a balanced range of bluffing and a balanced range of value betting. They can be aggressive and they will extract way more chips from you when they have their best hands and when they are completely lost in the board, since they can polarize their range and turn your condensed/medium range of hands into bluff catchers in very hard spots to do a hero call (obviously, they need to not bluff too much or too less; that's why I said they need to have a balanced range, otherwise, he would still be too much exploitable for even stronger players that would notice an unbalanced range more easily).

Sometimes I think pretending to be a fish can actually be a useful strategy. 😄 If you play in a way that makes your opponents underestimate you, they may become more aggressive or make mistakes against you.
The key is knowing when to switch gears. You don’t want to overdo it, the goal is to create the right image at the table and then take advantage of your opponents’ assumptions when the right opportunity comes.

My final opinion on this:

It can be a good tactic when u are in a new pool/new place/venue an noone knows how you play. Players might follow you on higher tables and/or pay u off when u finally got it. Saw that happenig myself playing live and online. As soon as people know you it wont make much sense anymore. Well u can still build an image but it can be costly and its difficult to execute in a profitable way longterm as some players will adapt.

This tactic can be also used for other games. A buddy of mine once got fooled in a bar playing billard. A guy was playing terrible and later wanted to play for money. My friend instantly agreed. Im sure he still cries about those 50 bucks up untill today because that billard fish turned into billard super shark in a second playing for cash.