There are many opponents in games like full ring who desire to play poker in as risk adverse way as possible. There is nothing wrong with this style if it suits you but it isn’t the most effective style out there when it comes to bb/hour or bb/100 which isn’t the same thing. It is less effective these days because the implied odds and loose money is far less in many areas of online poker. However in areas like full ring which is my chosen field of play then I know at levels like NL100 just what they average players are doing and this includes many of the regs.
In my opinion the vast majority of regs fall into two categories. These are mediocre regs and strong regs with mediocre regs basically trying to grind money from rakeback, sign up bonuses and weaker fish who pay them off big time with their nut or near nut hands. These regs in full ring are not the type of opponents that you want to get involved with in a big pot unless you have a very big hand. They are essentially not there to gamble and so when the pot escalates then under no circumstances should you think that they are bluffing.
If someone is skating around on thin values then this will either be a non-reg which will usually be someone with less than a full buy-in who is playing on maybe one or two tables or a short stack player that is possibly trying to capitalise on fold equity. But in very few cases is it a full stack reg unless on the rare instance it is a full stacked fish who is a reg for a while before they blow their roll.
