Eyewear in live games

luckylucky

When I was playing in the Austrian Poker Open I noticed so many people were wearing shades, the vast majority of them had them off and only put them on when being looked at. I hardly ever get to play live, but I know for smaller tournies people would probably think you were a prat if you wore them, but I did get to feel that it was definitely advantageous and at certain points wished I had some.

One guy who was pointed out to me after I exited though went down a different route, he was wearing sort of zombie-demon effect contact lenses which when combined with his long hair made him look like something out of a horror video, the woman from Everest Poker was so freaked out by him she couldn't look at him, anyway I thought it was a pretty novel idea.

Must see if there's any pic of this guy.

SuperSean11

I was watchin the big boys poker on the tv And i saw this one guy who wore glasses that had big orange eyes in them He said it intimidates people

Flushdraw

SuperSean11 wrote:

I was watchin the big boys poker on the tv And i saw this one guy who wore glasses that had big orange eyes in them He said it intimidates people

LOL

jebusmusic

chubby Raymer?!

SuperSean11

Is that his name???

DubTony

luckylucky wrote:

he was wearing sort of zombie-demon effect contact lenses which when combined with his long hair made him look like something out of a horror video

This Him?

Viotto Rintala from Finland plays in a band. Their name has something to do with wierd eyes.

luckylucky

DubTony wrote:

This Him?

Viotto Rintala from Finland plays in a band. Their name has something to do with wierd eyes.

that's da man

Now is he a scary lookin muther or what?

SuperSean11

look at the colour of his eyes but that aint who im talking about

luckylucky

SuperSean11 wrote:

look at the colour of his eyes but that aint who im talking about

yeah it's greg raymer who you're talking about, he's a very well known player that most poker players know about. Saying that it certainly seems at worst it hasn't done raymer any harm and I suspect it's done him at leaST SOME GOOD.

peeko

hanging out with Vampires luckylucky?

wondering how you managed to stay up all night playing, and slept all day and got away with it

luckylucky

peeko wrote:

hanging out with Vampires luckylucky?

wondering how you managed to stay up all night playing, and slept all day and got away with it

funny you should say that peeko, I was half thinking of getting vampire contact lenses for the next time i decided to blow money at some live event

Lazare

luckylucky wrote:

When I was playing in the Austrian Poker Open I noticed so many people were wearing shades, the vast majority of them had them off and only put them on when being looked at. .

Most people who wear shades, do so because they've seen it on TV and think it'll make them look like they know what they're doing. A misconception about shades is that you wear them so that people can't look at your eyes to get a read, when the real reason good players wear them is so that they can watch everything without anyone knowing, mostly when not involved in a hand. Kinda like when your on the beach with your wife/girlfriend and your head is pointing towards the sea, but your eyes are fully focused on that topless dutch girl at 3 o'clock.

I'd never wear them though, it's a stupid yank driven phenomena.

califano

SuperSean11 wrote:

look at the colour of his eyes but that aint who im talking about

Im looking im looking:)

ianmc38

Lazare wrote:

Kinda like when your on the beach with your wife/girlfriend and your head is pointing towards the sea, but your eyes are fully focused on that topless dutch girl at 3 o'clock.

I remember those days oh so well.

Mr.Plough

Flushdraw wrote:

LOL

lol made me chuckle

califano

Its like being at a Jennifer Annison film and overhearing someone say to their partner in scene1 "Thats Rachel out of Friends".

Sparky1808

Lazare wrote:

Kinda like when your on the beach with your wife/girlfriend and your head is pointing towards the sea, but your eyes are fully focused on that topless dutch girl at 3 o'clock.

We've all been there eh...

Solksjaer

rounders123good wrote:

Its like being at a Jennifer Annison film and overhearing someone say to their partner in scene1 "Thats Rachel out of Friends".

any good those Jennie A movies? nice to know yer in touch...

califano

Solksjaer wrote:

any good those Jennie A movies? nice to know yer in touch...

Just checked out her film list and cant recall seeing her in anything, its the example you see. Ah but she was great in friends wasnt she ted!.
Actually fatboydim has a neat pair of eyewear. They have a radio built into them and he's able to pull off wearing them with aplomb.

MrPillowTalk

If it makes you more comfortable wear them, if it doesnt then dont.

As for feeling like a prat, personally I would never care what anyone at the poker table thought of me.

Marq

DubTony wrote:

This Him?

He played in the fitz once. He won a bucketload of money and never tipped a penny, so obviously I thought he was a twat.

I think the name of the band is Random Eyes. Certainly that was on the self-involved fecker's t-shirt.

Goodluck2me

Marq wrote:

and never tipped a penny

i presume you were dealing his table obv....:rolleyes:

DeVore

The only problem I have with sunglasses is the reason for wearing them. If you are wearing them because you are concerned that you have tells that you want to stop people from reading, then you have a problem with your game and should probably try and fix that. A pair of sunglasses wont fix that.
If you are wearing them because you feel that way then you are lacking self confidence and feel people can "see right through you".

If on the other hand you are wearing them to intimidate your opponent or piss them off by denying them information then thats another thing.

Finally, I dont wear them in Ireland but I do in Vegas. This has nothing to do with Irish acceptance compared to US. It has everything to do with the fact that the lights in the WSOP room are the f*cking harshest I have ever played under. Presumeably because everyone is wearing sunglasses! :rolleyes:

DeV.

Dey were Sooted

I do like to wear a baseball cap as it means I can usually watch players carefully ,without being too obvious - It's not used to hide any tells(I have too many ) ,but you can sometimes tell so much bout a player if you watch them for long enough .

LuckyLloyd

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DeadParrot

LuckyLloyd wrote:

I was playing last Saturday with Flushdraw. Am watching the action at the other end of the table for a few hands concentrating on a particular opponent. Next time I look at Tony he has put on black sunglasses and is sitting with his tracksuit jacket compoletely zipped up and pulled up to his face like a muzzle!! Gone all American I tell ya!!:eek:

He said they were prescription

I noticed you have a very unusual way of looking at your cards Lloyd, though didnt stick around long enough to examine it further, me and my stupid preflop play

ianmc38

I wore them in Vegas a good few times:

1. Because my eyes were killing me and were akin to the terminators red eye
2. The lights were sickeningly bright
3. I'm a big tellbag

I couldn't give a flying fcuk what people thought of me. That said, I'd be slightly embarassed to wear them in ireland.

phantom_lord

LuckyLloyd wrote:

I have never used sunglasses and never will. And yes, I will stare people out of it and pay attention to what they are doing in a very obvious way. But I think that this is everyone's right to do at a live table. If you think you give off tells (I am a massive tellbag btw) it is just something that you need to work on.

at the nspc game, first couple of hands in, I'm looking around at the crowd, watching joe the shows banter on another table, flicking through my ipod deciding what to put on, I look over at Lloyd, and watch as he stares down each and every player menacingly as they nonchalantly toss in their cards or limp pf....



I then decieded that maybe I shoul pay a little attention to the game at hand....

LuckyLloyd

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El Stuntman

ianmc38 wrote:

I wore them in Vegas a good few times:

1. Because my eyes were killing me and were akin to the terminators red eye
2. The lights were sickeningly bright
3. I'm a big tellbag

I couldn't give a flying fcuk what people thought of me. That said, I'd be slightly embarassed to wear them in ireland.

I purchased a pair of giant novelty Elvis shades in Vegas for two bucks and wore them constantly at the tables. This, combined with the fact that I was downing rum and coke at an average rate of 3 p/h, helped to create a manic image that I was duly able to capitalise on....

Here's a pic of El Stuntdog modelling same glasses, they look better on her...

Hitman Actual

El Stuntman wrote:

Here's a pic of El Stuntdog modelling same glasses, they look better on her...

Have you forgotten said picture?

ianmc38

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7358/2576/1600/dog.jpg

El Stuntman

lenny_leonard wrote:

Have you forgotten said picture?

er, no?

I can see it anyway....

LuckyLloyd

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ianmc38

Honestly, he was taking a photo of the dog!

The Istanbul

nice puppy(s);)

SuperSean11

luckylucky wrote:

yeah it's greg raymer who you're talking about, he's a very well known player that most poker players know about. Saying that it certainly seems at worst it hasn't done raymer any harm and I suspect it's done him at leaST SOME GOOD.

Ye your rite its Raymer i was thinkin of Cheers:D

Jools Poker

i wanted to wear sunglasses playing live but never had the b*lls to do it until one tournament down in the macau.....was feeling fairly rough after a typically late night and decided to hell with it if i looked like an eejit...it was weird- as soon as I put them on I felt invincible! not to the point of getting reckless but i definitely kinda felt like being behind on of those two way mirrors...only problem was they were really dark sunglasses and the lighting wasn't that harsh so sometimes it was kinda hard to to see the board! and i still felt like an eejit anytime i saw someone i knew....but i reckon in a big buy in tourney the benefits outwieghs the embarassment..

luckylucky

Jools Poker wrote:

i wanted to wear sunglasses playing live but never had the b*lls to do it until one tournament down in the macau.....was feeling fairly rough after a typically late night and decided to hell with it if i looked like an eejit...it was weird- as soon as I put them on I felt invincible! not to the point of getting reckless but i definitely kinda felt like being behind on of those two way mirrors...only problem was they were really dark sunglasses and the lighting wasn't that harsh so sometimes it was kinda hard to to see the board! and i still felt like an eejit anytime i saw someone i knew....but i reckon in a big buy in tourney the benefits outwieghs the embarassment..

Yeah in a small tournament I think it's OTT but in a big buy-in tournament anything goes these days in regards to apparel, so many others are wearing shades and/or crazy apparell that the next time I go to one I'll have some sort of eyewear - worth giving a go anyway.

Flushdraw

LuckyLloyd wrote:

I was playing last Saturday with Flushdraw. Am watching the action at the other end of the table for a few hands concentrating on a particular opponent. Next time I look at Tony he has put on black sunglasses and is sitting with his tracksuit jacket compoletely zipped up and pulled up to his face like a muzzle!! Gone all American I tell ya!!:eek:
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Yeah Lloyd, they are prescription tinted glasses so technically not sunglasses. I got them for vegas and wore them constantly. I havent wore them much in Ireland and that game was the first outing. I have poor eyesight and sometimes overlook at a flop to see if its a queen of clubs or a queen of spades. I can also stare at players when i'm not in a hand without them realising.

As far as my own tells go, the glasses hide my guilty eyes when i'm bluffing and zipping my top up over my mouth covers the neck and eliminates mouth tells. Gonna start wearing them a bit more in bigger games, fck it if i look like a twat!

nicnicnic

:cool: I use them if I've got a hangover or am feeling fatigued or if the dealer's a babe and I'm trying to look like the Fonz. there was a hell of a lot more people wearing them a year ago so the trend seems to be to go commando.

pok3rplaya

Personally I'd feel like and idiot unless I was at the final table of the ME.

a147pro

There's a chap who always wears them in the fitz, with the full baseball cap ipod american sports casual getup :cool: , in the low buy-in tournies. In fact I remember him wearing them in one of the freerolls. Figuring he would take advantage of his image I called him with Khigh on a button push with about 8 limpers.

Needless to say he outdrew me with J high.

God I hated those feerolls!:D

LuckyLloyd

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BIG-SLICK-POKER

Saw this guy on Celtics poker site still my fav photo ever

connie147

I only use shades at big buy in events., and only for the first couple of hours usually. My reason for wearing them is when I'm studdying players for tells early on, I dont like them to know I'm studdying them, as at these tourneys, you can find players who will give you deliberate tells if they know your watching them.
When a new player comes to the table(or im moved), the shades go back on again.

snowy666

I'm reading this and you've all missed the mark. People wear sunnies because it's VERY cool...just like smoking.

ocallagh

Your eyes give away a lot, I know mine do so of course there is an advantage to wearing them. Some people do not have the ability to remain expressionless. I have no problem with people wearing them in freerolls or small buyin tournaments. I wouldn't bother because I just don't care enough or have the self discipline.. but for some people extracting the most amount of value possible from even the smallest tournaments is important, and I admire that, akin to waiting for the BB prior to sitting at a table, studying your opponents before sitting down etc etc... Of course there are a lot of people who don't need them and it would be stupid for them to wear them. Phil Ivey is a perfect example.. it would actually hinder his game to wear them as I'm sure he gives off false tells with his eyes now and again. I'm considering buying a pair for the IO.

BigCityBanker

If I didnt already wear prescription glasses i think id wear them.

Flushdraw

BigCityBanker wrote:

If I didnt already wear prescription glasses i think id wear them.

Well mine are tinted prescription so why not go for that?

FungiWalsh

phantom_lord wrote:

at the nspc game, first couple of hands in, I'm looking around at the crowd, watching joe the shows banter on another table, flicking through my ipod deciding what to put on, I look over at Lloyd, and watch as he stares down each and every player menacingly as they nonchalantly toss in their cards or limp pf....



I then decieded that maybe I shoul pay a little attention to the game at hand....

I loved how, at the NSPC, there were a load of guys at the start with their hoods up and sunglasses on, and when we were down to the last 5 or so tables, they'd all been knocked out!