There is a guy who destroys me at poker every week – Help?
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I’ve been playing poker 4 years now and i would say i’m quite good. I play in my local casino every week and normally do very well – There is one guy who also plays every week who seems to do very well as well. It always seems like he always wins and i come 2nd or we have a huge pot mid tourney which he normally wins.
He went on holiday for 3 weeks so missed 3 weeks of poker – every week he was on holiday i won the tournament, then he comes back and beats me again.
I don’t no how i can get the edge on him – he is very very aggressive preflop, on the flop, turn and river. He raises alot preflop – If i ever raise preflop he’ll call with pretty much anything and bet out on the flop.
I’ve tried trapping with big hands but he seems to check on the river when i have a big hand.
I just want to no if there is anything i can do to get the edge over him? – i think he may have a tell on me – how do you hide tells?
December 15th, 2008 at 10:36 am
he is to confindent on the table, u need call his bluffs, just concentrate on him, look at all his actions, if he raises big, u need to call him, and if u hv a good hand then RE-RAISE HIM, remove some confidence from him !
been playing poker since 7 years,
to be honest, i use to be a very aggresive player !
its all about reaction,
and allways in all hands be confident on the table !
gl
December 16th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Read books, it has helped me. And if you are having a problem with people reading you, then play online, it’s an easy way to make a lot of money if you are good.
December 19th, 2008 at 6:56 am
I wish I could answer with something really good here, but I was told not too long ago by a friend that I have tells, so this is something I’m trying to work on myself, I’m actually going to try and look back at this question to see if anybodys answers are really good…the only thing I’ve been trying to do is practice, not the playing but the acting part, staying stone-cold faced and things like that, but I’m not sure if its working for me
December 19th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
when your at the table do you talk alot, maybe you sign is when you get a big hand you stop talking and hold your breathe, these are very clear signs that you have something. hope this helps
December 21st, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Better borrow/buy the book Mike Caros Book of Poker Tells……….your doing something your not aware of…………………….
December 24th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
You either have a huge tell, or you are playing way too consistently and he has figured out your game..
Create a false tell. Something like playing with a card protector when you bluff. DO this only when you are in a hand with him, prefereably just him. Let him catch you in a big bluff once or twice with that tell, it may cost you some chips, but consider it an investment. Then use that false tell for the time when you do have the nuts and he reads you as trying a bluff. Pull this off and he will never again rely on tells with you.
And change up your game if you need to.
Good luck!
December 28th, 2008 at 6:31 am
If he is picking up on a tell that you have, first you need to identify what your tell is.
You could then replicate the tell when you have him and make him move in when you are strong. (that is if you are letting a tell when you are weak).
Just play your game when you are against him. Treat him as any other player. You may be doing something that you don’t usually do in order to try to beat him.
December 30th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Well first of all in terms of tells what you want to do is pay attention to your behavior and observe yourself how you may be acting in one situation or another. That’s something that you’ll have to work on and will take some time.
With this guy he is outplaying you and it’s probably not due so much to tells as knowing what to do against you. You’re telling the story here so what do you think you should do differently?
The more aggressive a player is the easier they are to beat, as a general rule, but only if you know how. Aggression means overbetting and this should lead to less expected value. However given this there are players where it’s correct to be overaggressive against and you may be one of them.
You always want to be thinking in terms of frequency when it comes to reading your opponents. This means, how often an opponent does a certain thing in a certain situation. For instance, the simplest example is how often a player raises pre-flop. If it’s rarely then they are only raising the best hands, if it’s often then they are raising with quite a bit of hands, and so on. What you want to do then is put yourself in situations where the odds are in your favor. If a player c-bets the flop every time for instance you want to call him down with a hand that is probably better than his, not the hand you might play generally against another player who doesn’t bet as much.
Another important strategy is to let aggressive players lead the action when possible. If you check the river and he checks back don’t worry about that, chances are he probably would have folded if you bet. If you check more though you make yourself harder to figure out.
If he bets out on the flop a lot after a raise form you then you need to be calling more in these situations. The reason you do this isn’t to call his bluff or keep him honest, you’re doing it because you realize that his average hand is weak here and you are playing back with what on average is a better hand. The more they bet, the more you call, although you don’t want to do it haphazardly either, you want to call with what would be the advantage given the frequency of the bets.
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