Is table Image a big thing? I remember feeling a good type of nervous when I first tried playing for a living at the casino I was going to play primarily at and it felt good like it helped focus me.. this was seven years ago, now at 38 and debating trying to play full time again I feel like I let myself go and my natural instincts fight or flight response has died down somewhat. Is this just a part of aging and how big does table Image in your opinion factor into play. I think it's a big part of the game if not biggest.

Imo table image is generally pretty overrated. Using reads is important and being aware of your own image (particularly recent hands/gameflow) might be worth a bit, but the truth is that winning at live poker is more about having solid fundamentals and avoiding large mistakes. Most live lowstakes games have multiple whales at the table, and most opponents are not capable of solid play, much less understanding and adjusting to your game in a strong way.

If you learn strategy and chain a bunch of reasonable hands/decisions together, over time you'll have a solid winrate at live lowstakes. If it's a personal strength you can lean a bit into the psychological/metagaming elements, but being a solid winner doesn't depend on that stuff if you learn to play the game decently.

I agree but I feel this LEADS to solid fundamentals.

Kind of like having your life together you have solid fundamentals towards just life so life coming first than poker gives you balance to recognize human tendency's THAN you could put your fundamental knowledge of poker to work with once your fundamental knowledge of humans comes first though

Best to think fundamentally rather than "this guy thinks I can't bluff, so Ill run a suicide bluff right now cause he'll always fold".

No I don't mean like that just the basic of it I feel like leads to opposite of that in fact leads to more constancy with a solid identity you have a solid image which I feel leads or presets solid fundamentals..

Good attitude presets table Image presets or is number one factor in being more able to play solid fundamentally

No, understanding poker strategy to a decent level leads to solid fundamentals. Stacking together a chain of reasonably played hands gives you a solid table image. Table image doesn't lead to solid play.

Yeah your right when you say it like that definite..it was kind of hard to put what I was thinking into words but was probably overthinking..lol your right.