Have you ever played against live poker players who are weak and fearful? Did you know such players make the game complicated than strong tight aggressive poker? Basically, the key area that you need to focus on while playing poker against weak players is to counter their big bets. This is because weak players complicate their game play and can hardly adjust to their big bets. These type of players fall into following two categories :

Making big bets is difficult for any professional poker player. However, most of the recreational players easily make quick big bets without taking into account game strategies. They treat poker as a game of chance instead of game of skill. So, they don’t think of best possible poker hand combinations before making a bet.

1.Calling Station
2.Stereotyped Folder

Calling Stations are like ‘piece of cake’, they are the most accessible targets in the game of poker as they have the tendency for calling bigger bets. This work as a benefit for you as you can counter their bets by over-betting because such players will by default call with any amount of money. In simple words, the thought process of ‘calling stations’ solely target on calling and not on amount of money to be bet. Moreover, such players seldom change their frequency of calling regardless of the size of bet. You can benefit yourself by making profits both by over-betting when holding a good hand, and by playing the odd small bluff if they seem weaker and are planning to fold the hand.

Stereotyped Folder is totally opposite to calling station and is more on a complex side. These players hate making bigger bets and are fearful of river bets because of which they lose many bigger pots to their aggressive opponents. The reasons why these players are more complex beings than calling stations are – firstly, when they are dealt with nuts, they never fold the nut hands. Secondly, such players make small calls when they reach a breaking point or get upset of being bluffed every now and then. All you need to do is follow big-betting patterns as these works as ‘treasure trove’ against stereotyped folders.

Thus, such weak opponents fall under the unexplored arena of poker. Players who fall in the above two categories are aware that they need to act to cover up their hands but they don’t know how to go about it. Most of the weal players give you their money by acting opposite to the true strength of their hands. When they are strong, they act weak and when they are weak, they act strong.