I've been reading this board for awhile. After recently registering, I decided I would keep up on the COTW every time it posts and try to contribute to the discussion. I've skimmed through a few old ones but this is the first 'new' COTW, so I read over it carefully. Great stuff.
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Originally Posted by village kid
for sure , trouble is there are up to 7 other regs at the table who have also seen you spew allin pre with JTs or whatever, and noting it down for them all individually takes tooo long: there needs to be a button on PT that lets you add the same note to all players at the table at the same time.....
People generally aren't paying attention to hands they're not involved in. They're multi-tabling, browsing the web, or just aren't thinking that deeply about the game they're in.
Of those hands, pushes that show down are most likely to get noticed, but I don't think we have to make notes in this situation, unless we pushed due to a read on a specific opponent and it backfired. He might have just outleveled you, or your read might have been wrong in the first place. We need to note here to adjust our perception of the opponent. As far as the rest of the table, they're either thinking opponents that are aware of what just occurred and why, or they think that you're a donk and will open up their calling ranges against you (if they change at all). The former recognize that the spew was read-dependent and won't affect future hands against them, other than the fact that you can be set up by an evolving style of play, which, if you're good and they're good, was already a given, and the latter are thinking so simply that your only recourse is to simply play good poker.
I can't think of any case where we make a play and make a note for the whole table. Rather we're looking at how specific opponents perceive us after playing in hands against them.