Always take a little time to reevaluate players
you have experience with to make sure they haven’t changed their style.
Tight/Aggressive
– Being this type of player should be your goal. This player doesn’t
play many hands, but when they do, they play very aggressively. The tight/aggressive
player will often enter the pot with a raise and bet and raise until they win
or are clearly beaten. Every time that a player bets or raises, it forces other
players to make decisions and whenever a player must make a decision, he/she may
make a mistake. The tight/aggressive player capitalizes on this by providing opportunities
for his/her opponents to make these mistakes. The name I assign to these players
is Solid. You must respect their bets and raises because they seldom enter a pot
with a poor hand. Solid players maximize their intake with winning hands and minimize
it with second best hands. When choosing a game, if I see too many solid players
in it, I will usually find another game if one is available.
Loose/Aggressive
– The loose/aggressive player plays too many hands, usually raises and is
very hard to bluff. When playing against them it is important to keep your starting
hand requirements tight so that you are often in the hand with better cards than
them. Most loose/aggressive players are trying to play the correct way, which
is tight/aggressive, but simply play too many hands. In the long run, loose/aggressive
players tend to be losing players because they play too many hands. The name I
assign to the loose/aggressive player is Semi-Maniac. A player that is at the
very outer edge of loose/aggressive is the Maniac. The Maniac plays many hands
and always raises if they are in a hand. If you find yourself against a maniac,
just sit back and wait for your very best starting hands. The maniac will pay
you a very high price when you do have a great hand so you can afford to pass
up the marginal ones.
Tight/Weak
– A tight/weak player has a solid understanding of starting hand requirements
and follows them, but doesn’t play well after the flop. This player doesn’t
raise to protect their best hands, which often lets drawing hands catch-up without
paying a high price. A tight/weak player much prefers checking and calling to
see what is coming next. The tight/weak player may show a small profit in games
full of poor players because of the proper starting hand selection, but will be
eaten alive by solid players. I call the tight/weak players Sandstone, in reference
to a weak rock.
Loose/Weak –
The loose/weak player plays too many hands, calls
when he or she should raise or fold and almost always
will pay you off on the river with second, third
and often worse hands. I call these players Calling
Stations. These are the players that many poker
players call Fish. I know that the loose/weak player
will always pay off my good hands and I often try
to isolate him/her to take advantage of this.
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