Questions Thread #4

Hi Ed,

I like the change to the site. I just read your post on how to play against tight players. As on your “Adjusting Your Play” DVD, it’s great stuff!

Along similar lines, can you give us a few tips on how to adjust to loose-aggressive-tricky players?

Especially in heads-up situations, this type gives me a headache. These battles most often occur when they raise my blind or I raise theirs. I have a hand and go for a check-raise, and they check behind. I bet a marginal hand and they raise. I call down with a small pair or A-high, and they have a better hand. I zig when I should have zagged….

So, any advice?

Its hard to give a universal style for tricky players, cause as you say yourself - they are tricky. If you start to play in a pattern they will adapt to that pattern. When I am faced with such an opponent I ussualy check and call more often but also allow my pre flop fold % to raise a little.
And then I make moves when I think I got a read. You will experience that most of the time they are bluffing. And if you give them some resistence once in a while they will sometimes tighten up.

- Lichten