It Can Be Easy to Knock Out Beginning Players

November 18, 2008

According to experts, is can be very simple to knock out beginning players simply by how you manage the pot. You can easily exploit these younger players by using bigger pre-flop raises, and playing to their weaknesses and your strengths. Most beginning poker players don’t have a style of play that they have developed so they are usually somewhat wary about how they handle the betting process.

They usually misplay their hands before the flop, then they lose and they say that it is bad luck. It doesn’t have anything to do with luck. When someone loses it is usually because they have played the hand wrong.

How you play your hand tells the other players what you have without you saying a word. If you have a good hand you are most likely to do a small pre-flop bid as you don’t want to scare off your competition. The rule of thumb seems to be that any new player that shows interest in a hand usually has a good hand because they will start with a small pre-flop raise.

So now he has a small raise out there and he has told everyone at the table what sort of hand he has without getting any information from the other players. He doesn’t have any idea what they are holding, but they all have a pretty good idea of what he has. Then he has to act first after the flop, leaving him completely exposed.