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PRO PLAYER PROFILING OR KNOWING THE GUYS YOU PLAY WITH
Here's some advice that will improve your game as much as it will have a positive affect on your wallet or handbag.
If you saw the motion picture, The Beautiful Mind, you will be familiar with the Mathematician John Nash and his breakthrough of Game Theory. Game Theory is a interesting concept that turns game relationships and the upending range of your opposing card players, into mathematical functions that can be ‘mashed’ and cyphered.
Playing styles can be examined and specified. As a matter of fact, the most expert Texas Hold’em computer simulations center on playing styles to a higher degree than just odds to study how the values of hands change contingent on the betting style of the other poker players. Playing style has a much heavier influence on the result of the game than most of us realized until the last few years.
Based again on these computer analyses, four primary types of playing styles have been distinguished:
Loose-passive = Net Looser
Loose – Aggressive = Low up to Moderate Wins
Tight-Passive = Moderate Wins
Tight-Aggressive = Maximum Wins
Loose-passive:
Often referred to as "calling stations", these players are apt to call any bet as long as they have even the most distant chance of winning the pot. Interestingly, loose-passive players often will not raise when they have a superior hand (that is the unresisting side of their unique personality). By the same token, they will likewise not fold when they have a trash hand. They tend to stay in the majority of hands unless pressed hard to call.
Loose-aggressive:
Loose-aggressive card players will make often and incorrect raises. They will not always have the best hand when they raise, and are not afraid to bet out or even raise with garbage hands. They understand the importance of aggression in poker but constantly do some serious overbombing. Loose players tend to bet without reasoning – first they raise, then they stay, then they raise and then they muck. That dubiousness is a dead giveaway. Due to their discrepant and illogical play, loose-aggressives are often called "maniacs".
Playing against maniacs can be lucrative, but they can also be costly to play against, due to the number of wild raises you will have to call - and you will have to call them if you want to see them, because it is somewhere in between hard to impossible put them on a hand.
Tight-passive:
This breed is known as "rocks". Tight-passive poker players play fewer hands than most and play them with kid gloves. This is the preferred style of ‘fish’ play when starting out agreeing to the sane and safe approach to the game.
When a tight-passive player does raise though -look out, it is more than likely that they have the "nuts". Acting tight-passive will keep you from losing money, but it will not make you wealthy either.
Tight-aggressive:
Tight-aggressive players also play hardly a hand that is dealt to them, but will be much more versatile in the way they play.
If a tight-aggressive player raises, you will never know if they have a good hand or if they are running a bluff. And that’s precisely the point. Tight-aggressive players are selectively aggressive.
They will bet very carefully on good hands to attempt and sand trap players with lesser hands into betting later and ramping up the pot. They will raise to create an expectation in other competitors that they have a great hand in order to drive weaker players out of the hand. And this is very crucial, as you understand how thinning out the number of poker players in the hand can dramatically increase the force of your hand. Tight-aggressive is the standard that you should shoot for.
To practice your ability to ‘interpret’ player characters, find a mid-sized poker game. This size of game leaves you more of a choice of who to sit by. Observe everyone play. Get a feel for who's acting tight, who's hard-hitting, and who sucks. Observe who check-raised, bluffed out or semi-bluffed. Count the number of times each player wagers on the pre-flop or folds. These are significant indicators to player type. If you can judge each of the poker players in that way, you will have boosted your ability to win by leaps and bounds.
The foremost thing you need to resolve as you observe is whether these players are distinctly better than you.
Always avoid tables where you catch a lot of early pre and post flop raises, and stay clear of games where it appears like one or two strong rounders are cleaning up on everybody else at the table.
Very ambitious players will take over a table and cause a lot of grief.
Steer clear of these dangerous waters if you regard yourself a fish or only slightly better.
Even as a very experienced shark, generally one or two aggressive players at a table is enough reject easy wins. Increasing the overall tautness of a table only benefits the house, which will make more profit from the rake than you will ever make from the pot.
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