Bullying in poker?

Valentia

Just a thread to ask all of you what do you think the difference between bullying and being aggressive in poker is. Its seems to me if you have goods cards its called aggressive but with bad cards its called bullying. What do y'all think?

azzeretti

I wish I could do either:D
Bullying is usually done by people with large stacks in good position. Aggression is more a style of play that a player might adopt, i.e they may be always an agressive player (mixing it up a bit, when needed) but might not always bully?

The Troll

Bullying is generally when a person with a big stack uses his number of chips to bet with a huge range of hands, scaring alot of smaller stacks off anything but premium hands.

padser

Bullying is simply being aggressive with a large stack. In most situations if you have a large stack its essential. (sometimes you hear comentators saying, the short stack bullied the large stack there, but to my mind thats not bullying, simply aggressiveness)

RoundTower

Some people play too tight, and are reluctant to call raises, especially preflop, without an excellent hand, even when the raiser does not need a good hand to raise. Usually they have too much fear of losing money or looking stupid or busting out of the tournament to be good players.

If you are in the game and consistently bet and raise when they don't have good hands, you will win more money, but they will accuse you of bullying.

Dub13

RoundTower wrote:

If you are in the game and consistently bet and raise when they don't have good hands, you will win more money,

But when you come up against good players who recognize this you will also lose alot of the time.

Daithio

I think aggressiveness is more to do with the frequency of your bets, but bullying is more to do with the size. Like when you are constantly putting smaller stacks to a decision for all their chips, even though it might be a bit of an overbet in relation to the size of the pot.

Lplate

It's an interesting question. In a tournament, having a big stack and putting small stacks to a decision for all their chips (especially around bubble time) is surely good poker but could probably be properly described as bullying as opposed to aggression. On Dubs point, yes good players will recognise this but still find it hard to call with a marginal hand and even when called you are often playing with the chips you've already taken off them.

padser

Daithio wrote:

, even though it might be a bit of an overbet in relation to the size of the pot.

Id add that in as the final part of my definition.

speedytom

Daithio is the master at both of them

bohsman

speedytom wrote:

Daithio is the master at both of them

Are you having a laugh?

ocallagh

speedytom wrote:

Daithio is the master at both of them

that u des?

bohsman

ocallagh wrote:

that u des?

Nah its IrishJack

speedytom

Hey bohsman somebody was saying there was some freeroll in the fitz for monte carlo or is that just the one that peter roche is having on his site? and i'm not having a laugh.

Dub13

speedytom wrote:

Hey bohsman somebody was saying there was some freeroll in the fitz for monte carlo or is that just the one that peter roche is having on his site? and i'm not having a laugh.

That would be the one on All In.

Daithio

It's on allin tonight Eoghan. You should have signed up to my downline when I told you!