[Closed] Nationalities - An important tell?

I find the same thing at FT. Sometimes it seems like the FT software in the US didn't come with a fold option. What I'm finding weird is that I'm more profitable from better players. The bad beats I take from the fish put me in the red. Making any plays at these players is useless since they can't fold, and betting for value should work if you can get a hand to hold up.

Playing against Europeans suck most of the time. They are mostly TAGs, and many of the are fellow PokerStrategists.

The American (Latin and Non Latin) are awesome. They pay off all your value bets, bluff with air. It seems like everyone wants to be a Gus Hansen.

European== :f_biggrin: :f_biggrin: :f_biggrin:
American=== :f_biggrin: :f_biggrin: :f_biggrin:

I was told that American are much better then european on higher limits.

European, hmm, The best are Germans and Russians. Almost every of them is a good tag.

The worst? With no doubts French, Italians, almost only :f_biggrin: :f_biggrin: :f_biggrin:

From my experience, people from Scandinavia seem to have a good poker school for the LAG style, at least in PLO. At PLO25, there isn't really that many good players. Seeing how people with unimproved aces go broke on the flop over and over again on the deepstack tables multiway for 250 BB is always amazing. Nationality isn't the most important thing here. Chat activity is a much better tell. If they win their coinflips and than start making fun at other guys because of bad play indicates the fish much better than nationality.
It happened to me before that I got my money in on the flop with a wrap draw against the nutstraight on a 478 board. I got my money in as the slight favorite and had to listen to insults in the chat for 10 minutes after loosing the the hand.
I guess its a better tell. I might be wrong though

Originally posted by pablomeza
Australia + New Zealand:f_biggrin::f_biggrin::f_biggrin::f_biggrin: 80%
Though they are the most scarce, the ones I have found have mostly been fishes. Again it's nice to play against most of them until I see, or bet sizes, stack etc., show otherwise.

Just another case of mixing up Australians and the good guys. ♠_mad:

Originally posted by Waiboy

Originally posted by pablomeza
Australia + New Zealand:f_biggrin::f_biggrin::f_biggrin::f_biggrin: 80%
Though they are the most scarce, the ones I have found have mostly been fishes. Again it's nice to play against most of them until I see, or bet sizes, stack etc., show otherwise.

Just another case of mixing up Australians and the good guys. ♠_mad:

I'm a fish

maybe focus on improving your games instead of wondering about these things

I'm sure the "more developed" countries offer the most fish on the micros and lows. However the higher up the ladder u manage the climb, the less attention I'd pay to "nationality reads". IMHO the nationality of a player tells about as much about their poker skills as duck farts contribute to the thinning of the ozone layer.

Well, just stay away from Slovenians in FL. Everyone I met was good.

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You play micro limits where 4/5 of players are fishes and your probably one as well,so stop with these stupid %.

@Waiboy and justkyle88 - Of course you guys aren't fishes! I just haven't faced more than 1 or 2 TAG Australians yet, I haven't seen any in the Micro stakes so far.

@ihufa - Of course that is my main focus! I'm just posting this to start a discussion on a 'trend' I have noticed. Of course this doesn't apply to everyone you find out there, but it can sometimes help to quickly identify the type of player you are up against.

@Atoks - That could be true, but I'm sure most if not all agree that, at least in Micro, Americans are the fishiest out of them all, and surely any extra bit of information can help out when playing against and maybe adapting to someone.

Berkstajger - LOL I actually do agree Slovenians are quite good. Most I have found are TAG's and I try to avoid them.

Paskkal29 - Sure I am a fish, and the %'s are OBVIOUSLY made up, but they're just there to give an 'idea'. If you don't have anything good to contribute, why even post?

German->fucking idiots
French->fucking idiots with luck
Korean->solid players
Chinese->Don't know much about the game
French->Have to say 2 times they are fucking idiots with luck

Originally posted by ksh198
German->fucking idiots
French->fucking idiots with luck
Korean->solid players
Chinese->Don't know much about the game
French->Have to say 2 times they are fucking idiots with luck

so you are from Korea?

I thing this thread lacks an essential type of players - RUSSIAN HACKERS!

oh and french are apart from horrible pokerplayers also braindead retards

In my opinion what you do here is like finding faces and shapes in the clouds: they seem very convincing but it's just random stuff.

I find 2 possible reasons why people in a country may be better or worse than others:
1. On AVERAGE people with bigger incomes are worse ( an indian player vs a french one, guess who plays better)
2. On AVERAGE it depends on how well poker it advertised there and the mentalities.

That means americans are the worst players by very very far, followed by most developed european countries somehow on an equal place, and the best ones are people with other traditional values and very small income (Asia, Africa). I guess russians are special since they tend to get good at any concievable thing from iceskating to playing chess and now poker.

Of course at the micro-limits you are wasting your time if you are considering these factors.

no I'm from Sweden. But didn't see many korean donks

Originally posted by ksh198

French->fucking idiots with luck

French->Have to say 2 times they are fucking idiots with luck

I'm a french players, and I agree with that

Thinks about there will be no more french players in few mounths on online poker room due to a new french legislation !

So imo u should stop complain and enjoy us and our skill /D

With our new laws, each french players will have to play only on a french room... So for us, french pokerstrategyst, it will be realy profitable !

And we will let you Korean players, are u happy ? Do u think it will be profitable ?

ps : Same similar laws processed in Italia, now theirs have their own pokerstar.it ...

Originally posted by SallaMC
Chat activity is a much better tell. If they win their coinflips and than start making fun at other guys because of bad play indicates the fish much better than nationality.

+1 Anyone talking smack or bitching about bad beats all night is usually horrible. THEY'RE NOT BAD BEATS, YOU'RE JUST SHIT. The other day some fish was complaining about bad beats, checked his stats he'd lost $20,000 over 3.5K SnGs. Keep grinding the low limits buddy!