Why do people wear sunglasses in low-limit and mid-limit holdem games?

[SinCityGuy]

You guys look like idiots, you're not accomplishing anything, and you're likely driving off the type of player that you want at your table.

Put yourself in the shoes of a recreational fish, who is there to gamble, socialize and have a good time. Which of the following tables are you most likely going to want to sit at:

a) a bunch of sour, silent, serious, brooding guys with baseball caps, sunglasses and headphones

or

b) a table of cheerful people who look and dress like you do?

[deacsoft]

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You guys look like idiots, you're not accomplishing anything, and you're likely driving off the type of player that you want at your table.

Put yourself in the shoes of a recreational fish, who is there to gamble, socialize and have a good time. Which of the following tables are you most likely going to want to sit at:

a) a bunch of sour, silent, serious, brooding guys with baseball caps, sunglasses and headphones

or

b) a table of cheerful people who look and dress like you do?

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I used to wear glasses, and they did accomplish something. They made the other players at the table more comfortable because they were unaware that I was constantly staring at them hand after hand. They probably just made me for some idiot who was wearing glasses (which was good for me) like you stated. It wasn't untill nearly everyone (dealers, cardroom managers, regulars, chasiers) knew me by name that I stopped wearing them.

It has been my experience that most producers don't care at all about what you're wearing or how you play. They simply don't know any better. I also found your hasty generalization of the "...silent, sour, serious..." player types to be absurd. Anyone can fit that description wether wearing glasses or not. I would be willing to say that most producers would rather sit at a table full of friendly looking and talkitive players, but just as many simply want to play and don't care with whom.

[Glenn]

If you wear sunglasses indoors, you are a tool. The end.

[cardcounter0]

Annie Duke told me that most tools aren't aware that they are tools. A tool wouldn't notice that most people don't want to play with a bunch of tools.

[Gamblor]

Annie Duke can lick my balls.

[kgrad5]

are you one of the people that wear sunglasses at low limit tables just to sing the song?

[Al_Capone_Junior]

Yep, that's right. You make a summary judgement that covers all situations and all people for all times and it's instantaneously pure undeniable and inarguable fact.

Thanks sooooo much. I'm writing it all down now.

al

[J_V]

haha capone...you must be a tool too [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

[Al_Capone_Junior]

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haha capone...you must be a tool too

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That may be true [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] ... but it ain't cuz I wear glasses. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Lawrence Ng]

Deacsoft,

I wear sunglasses for two reasons:

1. I am tired, I do not want opponents to see I am tired. But my yawns usually give it away.

2. The light is way too bright for me.

Sunglasses and baseball caps and walkmans/cd players do not make people anti-social. Anti-social people make people anti-social.

Ask anyone in Vancouver who plays with me and you will find I love to talk it up on the table and ramble on about anything to pass time while not in a hand. My baseball cap and sunglass image mean squat. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]