Online Poker Forum - Are these players good, or wild?

Omega Operative · Two Pair Joined: 09 Sep 2009 Posts: 55

I have been playing a lot more 1-.25 SnG and some 18 or 27 MTTs with limited success. I'm super tight, especially in the beginning only playing premium hands, and can usually make it to bubble by just surviving. Usually out of about 50 hands, I will see about 5 or 6 and win about 2 or 3 of those. Just enough to give me chips to last to the bubble. But usually I'm on the short stack by then.

Anyways, it seems that when I play there are a lot of wild players who are going all in A LOT. But the thing is, these guys always seem to make it past the bubble. And when they get called, they usually have like 89suited, and catch a draw. It's uncanny. Maybe they are taking advantage of the tight players (like myself) at the table or are just really lucky. But I have seen so many of the kinda plays, and seem them all get past the bubble, it got me thinking that there might be some order to this chaos.

I mean, sometime right off the bat, first round of the tournys, these guys go all in. It seems like every 5 to 8 hands, these guys will go all in, and maybe get called 20% of the time. I would usually just think these guys are wild players, but they are the ones that seem to be winning!!

The only good thing is when there are like 3 of the guys at the table, I just stay out of there way and let them knock each other out, and just sneak in past the bubble.

Any thoughts?

HuJwang · Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:46 am Post subject:

at the 1.25 there are no good players. the only reason bad players can win is because everyone else is just as bad, mostly. also, you tend to notice it more when the bad player wins, because it's unexpected. when he loses, you don't usually have a second thought. so it creates a bit of a perception bias

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