Comment by zahlman

> Not really. Only as far as their table image mattered--in this case, zero.

Right; there's feedback to it. When humans play poker, they do so with common knowledge of the fact that humans have object permanence and can recognize and remember their opponents. The same thing that motivates "profiling" a villain, motivates attempting to project a table image, which in turn motivates being aware of the table image one is projecting.