Superstition unpredictable madness

[tjh]

There have been some funny threads on what seats win at party and various other madness. Even flower selection and tinfoil helmets. With that in mind....

I play a guy in local live tournies who plays in the following manner. He looks for patterns in the flop. If he sees a pattern then he plays holds and bets those cards. Silly ?? Yes
Unpredicatble ?? Confoundingly so.

Actually I could study the flop also and then know what he is doing but that would be surrendering to superstition and the next thing you know I would have a voodoo doll with a deck of cards in it's hand sitting on my desk while I play online.

Although I think his playing style is absurd it has made him totally impossible to read. In some respect that has given him an advantage.

Anyone else play against folks like that ?
Any thoughts ?
I suppose the guy who believes seat #10 is lucky will play very crazy when in seat #10 and very conservatively in seat #8 thus making him rather unpredictable...

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Before you flame me,,,
I do not believe in luck, lucky seats, tinfoil radiation protectors, game theory or any of that stuff, I just play folks who happen to believe in that stuff. I wish they would stay at the craps tables.... Then again I wish they keep playing poker with me.

[gumpzilla]

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I suppose the guy who believes seat #10 is lucky will play very crazy when in seat #10 and very conservatively in seat #8 thus making him rather unpredictable...

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Of course, he's not changing seats in the middle of the game, so he can still be pretty predictable over the course of any one game, which is pretty much all that matters.

[suited_ace]

This is not superstition. This is game theory. By having a random trigger he ends up having an edge over a set of equally skilled opponents, and even more edge on the ones that are less skilled than him.

[trdi]

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Actually I could study the flop also and then know what he is doing but that would be surrendering to superstition and the next thing you know I would have a voodoo doll with a deck of cards in it's hand sitting on my desk while I play online.

Although I think his playing style is absurd it has made him totally impossible to read. In some respect that has given him an advantage.

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I think you are very wrong there. Every information you have on him would be very valuable to you. If you'd really somehow cracked his flop-pattern-betting-decision-algorithm, you would own his ass big time!