- Almost all of the poker mistakes you can make fail next to the horror that is FPS. Fancy Play Syndrome happens when players fall in love with their own strategies and decide that they’re going to show off at the table instead of playing solid poker. You can see these players coming from a mile away, and the only reasonable reaction is to take all of their money.
FPS is fully an ego move, which is something that we’ve already talked about a little bit. Yes, you’re definitely going to up your game and your number of acceptable strategies as you get better at poker, but being overly complex just for the sake of complexity is plain stupid. If you can win through simplicity, save yourself some time and just go ahead and win that pot!
