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How To Beat AGGRESSIVE Recreational Poker Players!

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James Romero is one of the best poker tournament players in the world and here we discuss a hand that he played during the World Series Of Poker (WSOP).

This poker hand took place during a $3,000 6-max event. The villain in the hand is described by James as an aggro whale which means they are extremely aggressive and not necessarily very good!

Together we share some great tips to beat recreational poker players. You should start by quantifying what exactly the biggest mistakes or leaks that these players have. This will give you a good foundation to formulate a poker strategy that you can use to maximally exploit them.

James starts the hand by raising preflop with AJo from the LJ and the villain in the big blind defends. James makes a well thought through check back on the flop as he believes that this opponent will start to bluff too frequently on most turns and rivers. Does the recreational player fall right into his trap?

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10 thoughts on “How To Beat AGGRESSIVE Recreational Poker Players!”

  1. What is the biggest exploit that you use against overly aggressive recreational players?

  2. Would this be a situation we call down with all our ace highs? Or is he bluffing so much any pair any ace high is good for 2 streets?

  3. Thank you Jonathan, I've been struggling with maniacs betting pot in every street looking for their flush draw to complete and guess what they always did at the river. I folded 50% of time and called 50% of time and they always had it. God I hate this

  4. He says he adds this hand to his check range on the flop but calls 2 streets. Does this mean call on the turn and river?

  5. Ugh, he quoted the pot odds. “You only have to be right 1 in 3 times here.” This does not apply to tournaments! This is because the chips are not equal to money and presumably you are trying to win the most money. Furthermore, you will never reach the “long term” in tournaments. Here is what I mean. Imagine you are heads up at the final table of the main event. You have $1000 more in chips than your opponent. You have 10-5. He goes all in pre but gets confused about the action and turns his hand over thinking that you have called. He holds 9-8. Wow, you can win the whole thing here and you are nearly a 60-40 favorite. Since the difference between first and second is $4 million, you make over $350,000 in the long term by calling. Except that the long term requires you to be in this situation about 5000 times, and you will never again be in it even once. In tournaments, good players do not want to take small edges with large downside risk. This destroys their skill advantage. The good players want to stay in the tournament for as long as possible, allowing more and more time to actually use their skills. I believe that this is why Phil Helmuth has good tournament results but many much stronger cash game pros do not.

  6. Great video guys. My biggest problem I face in poker is giving players way too much respect and folding out what is likely the best hand.

  8. Trapped 2 fish in the last 24 hours with full houses. The funniest part was when they both drew quads by the river. Im still laughing about it now.

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