some biginner Strategys for cash game

[roo27]

Extracting Money from an Action Player in a Cash Poker Game



If you don’t know what an action player is, you haven’t been playing cash games very long. These players are the types that you might refer to as loose/passive, maniacs or calling machines.

Action players can take different forms, but one thing is for sure: They don’t play poker very well. They get into every hand and either bluff blindly or call down everything to the river. They’re often either rich and don’t care about the money, or they’re drunk and dumping it through pure stupidity.

You don’t find these players all the time, but when you do find one you can earn at a rate that’s as good as playing a 21-year-old college student on tilt. Finding them can be as easy as looking at the clock on the wall. If you wait for certain time zones to reach about 2:00 a.m., you can find lots of action players getting home from the bar. They’re not hard to recognize: They’re in every hand and they’re not winning any money.

Extracting money from action players usually only consists of isolating yourself with them and hitting a part of the flop. The more hands you get into with them, the more you stand to make. Raising pre-flop will help isolate yourself with them, as long as the other players at the table don’t realize what you’re doing. Once other players realize the opportunity, you’ll have to battle off the others to get to the action player.




How to Trap an Opponent in a Cash Poker Game



There are two types of successful cash game players: the type of player who forces the action and steals lots of pots, and the trapping style player who preys off of these players. Usually the trapper plays a reserved style, and lets the aggressive players bet into them when they have a good hand. They would normally be considered tight style players, but any style is capable of trapping an opponent.

Trapping is essentially the same thing as slow-playing. You must consider the player you’re in the hand with, because tight players are not easily trapped. If anything is different it’s that the trapper knows that his opponent will bet if they check. Traps can be elaborate, where the trapper will bet out a small amount that they expect to get called, only to back off on the turn or river to entice their opponent to make a bet.

Making a larger-than-usual raise pre-flop with a big hand like pocket aces can also elicit the response you’re looking for. If you can make a bet look like a bluff or steal attempt, hands like big-kicker-aces and medium pairs will respond after a move like that.

Any way you can use the betting to disguise your big hand is a trap. Ideally you want to disguise your hand enough to give your opponent sufficient confidence that they have the best hand.
If things get too aggressive at the table, your advantage may be gone and will shift to the action player. So don’t stick around if everyone is trying to get head-to-head with him.




Knowing the Best Time to Leave a Cash Poker Game



When playing in cash games it’s tough to figure out when it’s the right time to leave the table. Only you know how things have been running for you, so there’s no golden rule that one can follow to get out at the right time. However there are two basic reasons to leave a game.

If you’ve been running bad and your state of mind has turned negative, it will only take one or two more beats to put you on tilt. Getting out when you start to think that you can’t win will be the best move you can make. In this state of mind you will make mistakes that you would normally not make, and it could possibly evolve into a full-fledged tilt and bust-out. Leaving with some money and some sanity is always your best move. Save some cash for a better playing situation.

The other reason to leave a cash game is if you’ve had a great run and are up a considerable amount. The only thing that’s constant in the universe is change, and if you’ve been running good, that too will eventually change. If you’re able to get out before the luck turns, you’ll be that much better off.

This one is the toughest to do because you’ll be winning, and it will seem like you’ll be leaving an opportunity. You may very well be leaving a bit early before the luck changes, but getting out before a bad run starts is how you make profit.


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[Bobble66]

thanks for the heads up. have lost a little ( but not much) and think it was to one of these but now informed it makes my game plan change

[amazon-mum]

like the wait till 2am time zone lol very nice roo, you not been in our chatroom around 10ish............

[BigA1]

Great advice. I once was afraid of these players. I hoped that they would not show up at my table.

As I became a better player, I found out that you can indeed make a lot of money from these people. Yes, they sometimes are lucky and beat you, but the odds are in my favor. My only fear about these players now is that someone else will take their money before I get a good betting hand.

[Jmahoney]

great reading