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Who wears sunglasses and the table, and why?
I've never tried it, so I keep feeling like I should at least give them a try. But I really don't think I need them, and I'm not sure anybody does. Personally, I don't think I give off a lot of physical tells, but when I do, I don't think it's coming from my eyes. I know when people read me correctly it's because I'm playing like a dunce, and sunglasses aren't going to hide that. I guess if I was going to wear them, it would be more so I could stare down my opponent and try to get reads off of him.
When I do stare down an opponent to try to figure things out, I don't think I'm usually getting much out of their eyes, so again, I'm not sure sunglasses are helping anybody. But watching the main event, it seems like half the people there are wearing them, including a lot of pros. So what do you all think about it?
 
I get the use of sunglasses at televised events because the light is overwhelming. That said I'm confident the lighting isn't what makes people wear them. I'm not a fan. I mean really, where do you draw the line? What is stopping anyone from wearing a welding helmet to the table?
 
I like the idea of wearing glasses to reduce physical tells...I think things like looking at chip stacks can give away some info in the right circumstance. But I feel too goofy wearing them especially if the lighting isn't good and it makes it harder to see. I did wear some this last weekend because the garage door was open and there was a card glare. I don't really feel like they helped my game though.
 
I get the use of sunglasses at televised events because the light is overwhelming. That said I'm confident the lighting isn't what makes people wear them. I'm not a fan. I mean really, where do you draw the line? What is stopping anyone from wearing a welding helmet to the table?
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Sunglasses in home games are silly. Tells can be dicey in home games too. I've been tricked often by new players who didn't understand the strength or weakness of their hand and gave off misleading tells.

At the WSOP id consider them because there would be a lot of players with more experience than me.

The biggest advantage of using them is you can study a player without them realizing it and thus their behaviour is more likely to be natural.
 
Wearing sunglasses doesn't hide how much people suck at poker. Can't stand them along with the hoodies and headphones.

Especially in home games. The tools who take off there sunglasses because they can't see the flop and keep slowing the game down because they cannot hear the verbal bets.

That crap is banned in my home games.

Wish they would ban them at the WSOP and all poker rooms. Watching the WSOP is getting so hard to watch now with all this and their tanking and robotic movements. Bunch of tools.
 
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There is this one dude who plays every day at my local casino. He wears basically the same everytime. A track suit, sunglasses and the biggest, douchiest set of Beats imaginable. He often bets out of turn because he knows the dealer will enforce his action.
The funniest thing about this clown is that although in his mind he's a high roller qualifying for the WSOP we're actually playing 2/5 limit....which is just old people fishing with money for bait.
 
Sunglasses in the WSOP is acceptable. Any other game and you are a try hard IMO. When I play in Vegas I automatically assume someone is a weak player if they are wearing sunglasses. Its not always the case but more often than not. Often new players wear then to cover their own nervousness or lack of confidence. Really strong players don't bother....just speaking in general terms.
 
I played in Tunica a few weeks back vs a player that wore sunglasses. I scooted down low in my seat, so every time he looked at his cards, I could read them in the reflection. I couldn't tell a club from a spade, but I could tell red vs black.

Before you start thinking I'm a dick/cheat, I let him know I was doing it. Well, I mentioned it. He might not have heard with the headphones in. :bag:
 
Nothing says "I learned everything I know about poker from watching WSOP on TV" than wearing a hoodie and sunglasses at a home poker game.

This is what cracks me up. Me and my buddies that all got into poker via Moneymaker boom and all the TV coverage, this was a typical game with everyone wearing hoodies and sunglasses and their FT/P* clothes. Typical home game among my college aged crowd in the early mid 00s.

Y'all might find it ridiculous but it's churning up lots of feelings of nostalgia for Quad Johnson over here. A testament to the effect of the poker boom if you will. I recall it with the same fondness I recall the old Jnco jeans and super spikey hair me and my buddies rocked in the late 90s. :D
 
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I think sunglasss should be outlawed. Matt Savage ran a tourney awhile back called the Social Experiment. No sunglasses, no hoodies, no headphones and no cellphones. Most comments were positive. Sign me up.

Assuming its not super high stakes I totally agree with this. Considering the vast majority of the time players are NOT in a big hand then why not talk to other humans...novel idea.
 
I would never wear them at a home game... unless you were trying to be funny... But at the home games I have been too if someone is doing the hoodie/sunglasses/music/no drinking thing I probably won't be going back to that game...

At the casino who cares, if they want to wear sunglasses no big deal... I have warn mine a few times because they are proscription and I forgot my normal glasses... oh well
 
I would never wear them at a home game... unless you were trying to be funny... But at the home games I have been too if someone is doing the hoodie/sunglasses/music/no drinking thing I probably won't be going back to that game...

At the casino who cares, if they want to wear sunglasses no big deal... I have warn mine a few times because they are proscription and I forgot my normal glasses... oh well

If wearing at the casino you need to at the least be playing 2/5. Playing 1/2 with sunglasses is just silly. If you have the $$$ to play 2/5 or higher then good on you...you should be allowed to wear whatever you want.
 
If wearing at the casino you need to at the least be playing 2/5. Playing 1/2 with sunglasses is just silly. If you have the $$$ to play 2/5 or higher then good on you...you should be allowed to wear whatever you want.
as a 21 y/o I wore sunglasses at 2/4 limit. The embarrassing things we do in our youth....
 
I think it's plain rude and disrespectful to other players, even if they are complete strangers. Who said people can be rude to anyone they don't know personally?
Games are meant to be an interaction among people. If you can't take it, don't play.
They should be banned anywhere regardless of stakes. Clearly a lot more offensive than string betting 14.25
 
If wearing at the casino you need to at the least be playing 2/5. Playing 1/2 with sunglasses is just silly. If you have the $$$ to play 2/5 or higher then good on you...you should be allowed to wear whatever you want.
Out of curiosity can you tell me why playing 2/5 NL with sunglasses makes you less of a douche than if your were playing 2/4 limit.
I will gladly take you and your sunglasses sitting next to rather than the slob that hasn't showered for 5 days
 
Out of curiosity can you tell me why playing 2/5 NL with sunglasses makes you less of a douche than if your were playing 2/4 limit.
I will gladly take you and your sunglasses sitting next to rather than the slob that hasn't showered for 5 days

Sunglasses in theory are for high stakes games, whether it is tournaments or cash. I think using them in the WSOP is totally fine. I fully support showering a min. of once per day.
 
I ain't going to lie I used to wear them, not anymore!!!
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My alternative to wearing sunglasses is to wear a cap and then pull the bill down over my eyes a bit when I'm in a hand while at the same time tilting my head forward. Sometimes I accompany this move with a Phil Helmuth hand-over-the-mouth maneuver. It doesn't really help. Either way, I'm still a donkey, just a donkey wearing a hat with his hoof over his mouth.
 

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