Playing Good Poker Against Inexperienced Players
Posted on May 16, 2008
Filed Under Pocker
To many players there is nothing they enjoy more than to play against inexperienced players, or ‘fish’ as they are often called online. I have often heard people talk about winning lots against such players because these ‘fish’ don’t know all the tactical plays, and don’t often make the right moves when playing poker.
Firstly I have to say that it isn’t very fair to call these players fish, and mock their inability to play poker well, because we all have to start somewhere and the more we practice, the better we get at something. Also I have to say from my experience people are wrong to think these players such easy prey, if you are playing good poker with in depth strategy then you will notice much of this is based on reading your opponents hands by betting patterns amongst other things, and you will also be bluffing players when you strongly feel they have a fairly weak hand and should fold. In these instances however, consider the following problems an inexperienced player poses, how can you read how strong a players hand is when the player isn’t entirely sure themselves whether their hand is strong or not.
Even if you do correctly manage to work their hand out as being weak, you might think ‘if I make this sized raise then the correct decision for them is to fold, providing I am right and their hand is relatively weak’. Immediately they call, simply because they are unsure of the odds of their hand being in front, and suddenly your bluff has gone wrong, even though your read and play were flawless. I understand of course that there are obvious faults that can be exploited in their play which is certainly a big plus point, but the point I am making is that inexperienced players can be very dangerous to someone who plays strategic carefully planned poker, because they are completely unpredictable. With this in mind I have always said, that I would much rather play a talented poker player than someone who is quite inexperienced, because you simply can?t outplay someone who doesn?t really know how to play in the first place.
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