Oh man there's a few of them at my local...One guy even verbalises his disgust at the Ace on the flop when he raised pre, and folds to any action.

Here's one that I came across a few times but couldn't put a finger on a name for it.

It's the same story.. Tattooed jewelry-wearing drug-dealing muscle-head tough guy who is THE action of town. He doesn't care about money. He will 4bet ship deuces on a AKQ flop multiway. He will randomly make bluffs on nothing and almost always pay you off when you have it. When he comes into the game, almost everyone at the table leaves a few BI's richer. There is a long table switch list to his table. For him this is "fun time".

At some point in time he gets arrested for assault or some stupid crime because someone talked about his fatass girlfriend. Thug goes to jail while said fatass gf was pregnant.

Couple of years later, thug comes out of jail. This time he has a little girl. He's on probation with a record. Lazy and unemployable, he has to take on poker as a source of income. So he plays super tight. But at the same time c-bets almost every pot he he opened and plays the float line every pot he called. He is now quiet and has turned into a tighter version of Phil Ivey. Now whenever he sits down at a game, the game is much tougher and virtually to be avoided at all costs. My guess is that he smartened up. Read a few books and perhaps did some studying. He won't give away chips unless he has the near nuts now.

We have ourselves a complete transformation: from loose cannon fish to a true grinder. I have witnessed and/or heard about two such players in my lifetime of playing live poker.

Amazing thread!

I'm a live player, and have actually seen all these player types mentioned.

Had an older dude actually refer to himself as an OMC the other day. He actually said the abbreviation, not the full three words, which made it so much better.

I know it is about 17 and a half years later but I laughed ridiculously hard when reading this! Spot on!

Ok here's one I have started to notice:

SROGTASAP- Semi Retired Older Guy Taking a Serious Approach to Poker

After working for most of their lives in a conventional career, the SROGTASAP, aged about 52-60, has retired a little bit early and can now devote some productive years to chasing the poker dream. Often lawyers, accountants, small businessmen, or contractors, they have made a nice but not jaw-dropping pile of retirement cash, and are under no immediate financial pressure.

They will take their game SERIOUSLY....reading lots of books, signing up for multiple training sites, and maybe even hiring a coach or fooling around with software. But even with all this work, their game doesn't get too scientific; they are basically employing general fundamental principles.

This player usually has a well-maintained clean appearance, and is also usually pleasant to others. You can easily identify them by engaging in some small talk about sports, and they will then loosen up and tell you a little about their careers, and move on to reveal how seriously they are taking poker, because they secretly want to impress you with how good they are for an older guy.

You may find them playing 2-5 no limit, but typically these types are attracted to tournaments, where they may be chasing an ego boost which escaped them in their too-dull-for-their-dreams careers. So you will find them at larger cardrooms playing dailies or bigger local series, on the WSOPc and similar tours, or even finally living out their ultimate dream and going for a long stay in Vegas around the WSOP.

Handle them as follows: While they know a lot about poker, they will often screw up in big pots, mostly by folding too much to pressure on the turn and river. They know they should be playing to finish high in the tourney, but they nevertheless will fold too tight in the mid-stages of MTT's and not put stacks in play enough, simply because they can't stand the ego-deflation of traveling to a tournament, getting eliminated, and having to get up and walk away from the table and having their plans for the day shot. They will know push charts and generally push properly with a short stack, but they will usually not call enough. Basically, they will lay a decent TAG game, bet-folding a lot, but susceptible to aggression causing them to fold too much, because their actual game-play at the table is not as strong as their knowledge of the game away from the table.

I resemble this, although I still haven't started to play more tournaments, it is part of the plan. Retired less than a year ago.

Anyone know who was the first person to use the term "Old Man Coffee"? I first heard Limon say it in an interview with Bart Hanson back in the day but I don't know if he invented it or not.

Rumnchess, it's eleven years later I don't know if you're even still around, but I have to tell you I loved this post. (I found it because I heard someone refer to a player as an 'OMC', which I then googled . . .)

You're a hell of a writer.

Confirmed Busto, live. Currently on ACR.

currently on the wsop main event final table.

Alex Livingston, it looks like you are correct. I had no idea.

Mr Livingston, if you’re still checking out this thread, did any of your profiles make to the final table with you?

Good luck!!

thread is now mainstream

Thought Livingston just stole the 2+2 handle. Legendary if it's really OG Rumnchess. Time for Warmdeck to final table the main next year!

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Livingston has been rumnchess on twitter since 2011... pretty confident it's him.

Congrats!

Still bitter that my “Waiting for higher stakes” (WFHS) didn’t make the ESPN cut

GG, nice run dude!

This is awesome, thanks for the root guys! Haven't been posting on here much lately but 2+2 was a huge part of my development in poker and my community involvement in the game

These apply best to NL Cash Games at the 1-3 and 2-5 levels usually.

Would love to hear about some 5-10 NL+ type players as well as mixed game and PLO player profiles.

I for one notice some trust fund kids at mid to high stakes mix games and then at 5-10NL I notice a lot of guys who sit down with a pile of chips but hardly ever play a hand and go for so many walks that they're around just enough so they don't pick them up.

BUMP! heard this referenced in the DGAF interview of this fellow.