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Originally Posted by CrazyLond
Regarding the former, it is my belief that no player who cares about money should strive for an image that is anything other than that of a recreational player. If it is more important to you to be respected by “pros” than to generate the additional action that a recreational image might generate for you, then it seems you are playing less for money than for social validation,
Stopped reading your essay right there.
Lots of good players seek a solid image and don't want to be perceived as recs. There's genuine mathematical advantages to this, consider the following scenarios and then you can extrapolate them to standard play:
- Targetting recs, not sharks: If you want to target recs (you do), you don't want to play agains sharks. It's in the shark's interest to mutually signal sharkhood to avoid mutual destruction. Same species animals in the wild rarely fight each other, they avoid fighting each other and resort to non lethat battling for honour if necessary.
- GAP Concept: Especially noticeable in short stack games, if you give the image that you'll call all ins, people will be less likely to go all in against you, you get to keep your blinds and squeezes.
You seem to be conflating good player with tight player, you feel that revealing your skill in the game will reveal your ranges, so that you will be predictable. So don't worry, reveal as much as you want, because you are not a good player, so there's nothing to reveal.