Playing perfect poker will win you a lot of money. However, this article is about playing better-than-perfect poker. In better-than-perfect poker, you not only play the game in such a way that you could beat the best player, but you play so as to extract as much money as possible from the poor players, depending on their flaws.
In this article, I will focus on picking on the weak player and how to extract as much money as possible from them over time in a game. A weak player is defined as one who is too prone too folding. In a sense, everyone is a little weak, since we sometimes fold when we shouldn’t. However, the weak player does this habitually, folding routinely in situations when he or she should not. A truly weak player can be beaten simply by constant aggression.
First, you must identify the weak player. When you sit down at the table, take note of when people fold. People will fold on different rounds. Some will fold on the first round. Others will fold when betting increases. Finally, there are some who will fold on the final round of betting. These are players who chase draws and then drop their hands when they miss them. Look for patterns of people who fold on the same round repeatedly.
Once you’ve found your mark, your goal is to play as many hands against that person as possible. It doesn’t matter at all what you’re holding. Their play is so bad that you can beat them with any hand. Of course, in order to do this, you have to actually get heads up with them. You can do this in two ways: you can either attack their blinds, or you can raise or re-raise to isolate them.
Unless you are in early position, you can routinely attack someone’s blinds, even from middle position. If someone behind you keeps calling or re-raising you, it won’t work. If you can move, try to get to the weak player’s right. Normally you want to be on a player’s left, but that’s good players. With a weak player, you want to be on the right so you can go after their blinds.
If the player is on your right, raise them if they limp and no one else is in the pot, or re-raise them if they raise, so you can get them alone. Be careful if they raise from early position, though. For weak players, this usually indicates a monster.
Now that you’ve got them isolated, the trick is simply aggression, aggression, aggression. However, make sure not to be too aggressive after the weak round you identified. If someone routinely folds on the first round, and he or she calls you, he or she has a real hand. It might be a drawing hand, so see if you’re attacked on the turn. If you aren’t, throw in a bet on the final round and take it down.
If a weak player is aggressive with you, just give up. It means they have something. At that point, you just try again. If they attack you again, they may have changed their strategy with you, and you’ll need to use other methods.
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