Beat Weak Ones
April 7th, 2010I’m used to playing in poker tournaments, so my poker mentality generally has me trying to beat every player at a table. The problem is, I’m (too) often not the best player at the table. In cash games, I’ll usually sit down and find that there are at least one or two players who I really don’t want to play against. Luckily for me, I don’t have to beat everybody in a cash game-I’ve just got to find one or two opponents that are easy marks and go to work on them.
If you’re playing at a cash game, don’t worry about trying to beat everybody, because usually, most of the money comes from just one or two cash cows at the game. When you first sit at a cash table, sit back and try to find out which poker opponents you can exploit, and which opponents you want to avoid. Once you’ve gotten that figured out, take as much money as you can from the easy players, and try to avoid going up against the tough players unless you’ve got a monster hand. If you’re lucky, playing looser against the weak players will encourage the strong players to bet with you when you’ve got a strong hand.