Tackling Loose Players through Low-Limit Tactics
September 22nd, 2008Consider this: a busy casino with poker players in a middle of a game. Peter, playing poker for the past 30 years is upset. He says that his opponents are new players who “don’t play by the book.”
These situations are quite common in poker today. New players generally indulge in loose playing. As such, low-limit players are out-drawn in a game. Here are few pro-active measures you can take to stop such incidences happening again and again.
Firstly, you need to observe the game very meticulously. For the first 15 minutes or so go slow with the game. Here’s the time to sense the ambience and the type of players playing with you. If you see for instance that a player goes for a pre-flop raise and fellow players are simply looking at him, you know that you are in a low-limit game. And, you are also dealing with reckless and loose players.
However, you still need to be vigilant for some more time to analyse the degree at which these players are playing loose. It might also occur that only 2-3 players are loose players instead of all the people present in the game.
While playing a low-limit game, you need to understand that loose players bet when it hits rather than having a good betting pattern. As a result, you should be very careful in dealing with such bets. This is especially true when you have a losing hand. You need to remember that new players bet out of nowhere and bet surely when they have a miracle card at hand.
In other words, don’t fall into betting traps of the loose and novice players in a low-limit game. Apart from being wary of how the players perform, you also need to act pro-actively to deal loose players.

