What's your preferred style.

[ZeeBabar]

What's your preferred style/persona when you go to play..

1. The Uston type, gregarious, drinking, loud...
2. The quite, non decrepit, low key, no conversation type who quietly plays.
3. The chatty, congenial, friendly type yakking it up with ploppies, dealer and pit
4. The angry guy doing his best (switching one hand to two hands, showing impatience when ploppy takes too long, sarcastic etc., rude when ploppy suggests how you play your hand, etc).) to drive any ploppy away.

Is your personality reflected by the AP, that is, you are in casino as outside?

Besides dressing to fit in, any advice to newbies and intermediates?

[ZenMaster_Flash]

My casino persona embraces #3, to a very high degree.
It suits my exuberant extroverted personality as well as
my acting ability. My more extreme camouflage cannot be
used by introverts. At times I pivot from #3 to #1 when I
creatively perform my wild-ass psycho-drug addict act.
On this forum there are about a dozen Card Counters who
have borne witness to my faux manic Bi-Polar episodes.

[RS]

Whichever fits your personality the best is probably the best for you.

[Three]

I mix it up.

[Koz84]

A mixture between 1 and 3. I would never recommend type 2. I was a type 2 during a trip to Vegas when everything was unfamiliar to me, and that in itself drew attention from the pit. Everyone in Vegas seems somewhat chatty and animated, I was too concentrated. It caused a pit critter at the 4Q to hawk me and preferentially shuffle on me several times.

[Freightman]

3, and occasionally loud and gregarious with a subtle
"okay, who farted - lady, was that you" not listed - good steamer - very important.

[Freightman]

Do you generally take turns? Lol

I've been known to clear a table.

[ZenMaster_Flash]

Not long ago, I was with a partner and we really were desirous of playing
alone. I put on a hospital-style face mask and manufactured some fits of
convulsive coughing that must have sounded like a tuberculosis sanitarium.

I have put (legal nootropic) powders up my nose, as if I was "coked-up."

I have fallen off my stool as if drunk, too many times to recall.

Then again, what have I not done ?

Oh' yeah. I haven't worn Tarzan's pink tutu.

[DSchles]

"2. The quite, non decrepit, low key, no conversation type who quietly plays."

LOL!! That's me -- non decrepit!!! You mean "nondescript"!!

Don

[ZeeBabar]

Right, Don. You are probably too well known to get away for long anyway.

[Bigdaddy]

Depends on my mood and energy level. Usually I'm somewhere between #1 and #3. Sometimes #2 in a lower energy state. Hopefully never #4, but I can remember a time or two when I've gotten visibly angry when a ploppy goes too far hucking me about "bad plays".

[jimmybond007]

I try and mix it up. If variance is good I try to keep happy and lively. Throw a few tokes for the dealer etc... When losing I get more in the slump and start acting frustrated and start complaining about how the dealer cannot bust or how they draw out every hand. Basically I try and mimic the ploppies and how they act when winning or losing.

[marriedputter]

I'm #3 almost all of the time. However, to borrow from #1, I typically have a drink in my hand. If I have been winning, I drink something harder than beer.

One day, I was #2 because my stomach hurt from eating food that was too spicy. I just didn't feel like talking. Didn't feel like drinking either. This has been my only backoff. Coincidence? Probably. I think that I was backed off due to my 2D play from a previous visit. The fact that I was quiet and looked pensive couldn't have helped any though.