July 30, 2010
Building Image Equity Part One
Building Image Equity part 1 By B. Butler Most regular poker online players have well recognized and accommodated the concept of poker table image, where their previous actions and play as displayed to opponents in previous hands can impact the expectations and responses of actions thereafter. For many, this image action corresponds more to the table by table play than over a long stretch, as with the large fields of online play we often are meeting new players more often than we’re hitting the same players from earlier sessions. These long period tendencies, though, do still have resonance and effect in the short term, especially when it comes to recognizing what people have seen you do in the short term, and thereby knowing what they might think of you. When trying to decide how to act in the future, this image effect can lead toward making decisions differently than you might have in a completely removed situation. By adding up these expectations and evaluating them against your Everest poker opponent’s preceding action, you may well be able to give extra weight to moves based off of that image equity rather than what is purely the best mathematical situation. Just as much as you consider pot odds, implied odds, and odds of hitting your hand, you should equally be weighing in that image’s influence, responding to your opponents in the light of how they might be responding to you.
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