Table image
Your table image is how the other players believe you play, which decides how they respond to your bets regardless of how you actually play.
It is worth having and worth not overrating. Most opponents pay far less attention than the person worrying about their image assumes, and online it is often no more than the last two hands anybody saw you show.
Where it does matter, it points in the opposite direction to instinct. A player seen as tight gets more folds and so should bluff more, and a player who has been caught should expect calls and value bet thinner rather than bluff again.
an example
your cards
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You have shown down two big hands in the last orbit. Betting this flop with a hand that has nothing is worth more than usual, because the table has recent evidence that your bets mean something.
This example is made up. The real one is in your own hand history: find table image in your own hands and see how often it came up and what it cost you.
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Bluff
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Tell
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Knowing the word is not the same as seeing it.
Forty hands against a bot, no account, and your own hand history at the end.