For the Smart Money Cookie

One of the most well known quotes in all of poker en ligne comes from the now legendary poker film Rounders, where Matt Damon’s character truthfully states: “If you can’t see the sucker at the table, you are the sucker.”

By and large, if you aren’t the poker player picking up on the plays of others, and knowing which ones are giving it away and which ones are raking it up, you might be the one who in the end is at the disadvantage.

In poker, the term ‘fish’ applies to these kinds of players, ones who are pretty much sitting ducks, waiting to give their money away. While a fish can get luck in the short term and take money from even the top pros, over a long enough duration, the fish will eventually give it all back. Fish is the poker equivalent of ‘novice,’ ‘newbie,’ or any other condescending term suggesting that you don’t have the skills you might need to win. If somebody is calling you a ‘fish,’ you probably either just sucked them out, or you are slowing down the game, as usually the more experienced players don’t want to ’scare the fish.’

The converse of the fish is the shark, who, as the image implies, is there to scoop up all the meat from the dead fishes and go home with the money.