Some people just look like rounders. If you want to be a profitable poker player, you should avoid this at thecasino. A rounder is a player who is always playing poker, every day and every game. They eat, sleep and breathe poker. They think about poker while they are chopping vegetables, filling their gas tank, and dropping the kids off at school. If you had your choice, you’d rather not play against a rounder.

Now, I wouldn’t consider myself a rounder, but I do play poker every day. I think about it a lot, I have conversations with friends, and heck, I write about it. But the thing is, I appear to be normal. I have a life outside of poker. I like music and movies and books. I drink alcohol and am relaxed. I happen to like poker, and that is why I play it. Some people play poker because they can’t do anything else. This is case with one of my friends, let’s call him Stan.

Stan and I went to a new game. It was one of the first nights the club was hosting, so we were there at the onset. We didn’t arrive together, but it’s not like I was Worm, showing up late and lying about who I was in order to take advantage of unsuspecting recreational poker players. When I showed up I said hey to my friend Stan and introduced myself to the table.

Stan, who had been playing for maybe a half hour before I got there, had already set up the “tight-guy” image. He looks kind of nerdy, has glasses, talks a lot about sports, mostly sports-betting, and online poker. He has a personality, but it is hidden a bit by his appearance; everyone knows the importance of a first impression. Anyway, I showed up and played a few hands and right away someone said, “You haven’t play a hand in forever,” directed toward Stan, who was getting very little action. He was doing a pretty bad job about concealing his rounder-image.

Sometimes it’s good to look like the everyman, and sometimes it’s good to have an image. I once had a black friend who used to wear Bob Marley shirts, Rasta hats and Jamaican beads to big poker tournaments to try and get people to think he was a little more laid back and not a very good player. People don’t look at Bob Marley and think “math-player”. But they look at Stan and think this.