Best online poker games on Launchpoker.com

  There are some absolutely brilliant players out there who are that way naturally. They just have the sort of knack for reading situations and putting their opponents on hands that simply can't be taught. But they are the minority. There are a bunch of other really fantastic players who have gotten that way with study, and worked their tails off to be as good as they are. While there are more of them than those who are just born good, this is still a minority of players.



  Most of what we will meet in the casinos are players who are the poker equivalent of a C student. They have potential, but have not done any of the optional reading or study. These are the players who have not read books about strategy, or get their hand histories after online play to break down their own performance. These are the guys who just are who they are. This is a good thing, because their own natural born tendencies can be used against them in very effective ways.



  A lot of the people who you will meet online and at the tables during cash games are very tight players. They are content to sit back and wait until they have premium cards. At that point they will come to life and start playing. Usually this is a signal to everyone else to fold and simply surrender the blinds to the conservative player. This can be a problem.



  While it seems harmless to surrender the odd blinds to these guys, eventually even the dimmest bulb is going to figure out that every time they bet, the table folds. While they are not getting any action on their premium hands, they will eventually just start bluffing and taking blinds when their cards are worth about as much as an old Chevy Chevette.



  There is a way to attack this player when they bet and make them doubt the power of their own premium cards. When the sort of player who was previously described bets, you show some aggression. Not only call their bet, but raise them. When the flop comes about, no matter what it is, raise them again like you have just made a monster hand. Don't be afraid to fire every barrel.



  The power here is in the lack of mystery. You know they have good cards. They know you know they have good cards, but you are confronting them anyway. The tight player's own sense of self preservation will kick in and they will probably fold before you can raise them at the river, thinking that they bet into a really bad situation. This will also keep them from making the leap from being a tight player to whom the table occasionally surrenders the blinds, to being a blind stealer who uses their table image as a stick to beat the competition with.



  This strategy works best with players who are not "maniac" players. The tight player may bet all the way down with a maniac, knowing that they show aggression with lower quality cards.



  Good Luck!