Different Types of Opponents on Live Poker Table

While playing live poker at poker rooms in Karnataka, you will come across different types of opponents. If you are playing on low stakes, then you will not get to play with legends of the game. However, when you get experienced playing on different level of stakes, you will realize that there exist same levels of opponents and you can group them into following four types:

Casual Recreational Players

Such kind of players are passionate about poker, and when get enslaved they are not that concerned hardly bother about winning or losing. Such players go to the poker rooms play poker for fun and as a hobby. They feel playing poker is quite reasonable than keeping horses or rebuilding vintage cars. Recreational players never ell that they are casual players, and you can identify them when they raise and re-raise you because they don’t mind losing money on poker.

Cardroom Regulars

A wide variety of regulars fall under this category, to name a few- retirees, homemakers, students, part-time workers, casino dealers, etc. You will also get to play with regulars on high stake tables in Indian poker clubs, they are the ones with independent sources of income and usually prefer big games. These players have good poker knowledge and game play experience, so play safe against them.

Professionals

Poker professionals are usually seen in medium and high stake live poker games. You will rarely find these players in games below $10-$20 because poker pros cannot earn a living playing low stake games. So, basically you will get to play with recreational and regular players in low and medium stake games while you can compete with poker pros in high stake games.

Proposition Players

Commonly known as props, these players though play with their own money but also get paid by poker clubs and casinos to initiate action on the table. You can find them in late night games to keep the action going or in early morning games to restore the action on new tables. These players are intentionally asked to change the table when the games on a certain table start to bear fruit.

The next time you go and play at the best poker rooms in India, just observe and keep track of such players.