Check Checking to Aggressive Players

In all categories of no-limit hold’em tournaments you run into a whole spectrum of  players: select aggressive, meek aggressive and aggressive passive and the usual overly aggressive players, who know how to be somewhat tricky to play against, however if you watch them really vigilantly, you’ll find they can’t stand two checks. These are the players that do not play patient poker.

When you have a big hand you can definitely take advantage of their lack of patience by checking them twice when you’ve got a great hand. Let them dig themselves a whole. Even some of the legendary faces and names in poker who’ve had a lot of success in major tournaments just cannot tolerate two checks, and you really can trap them into just checking a big hand to them two times when you are the first player to act. This way you allow them to bet your hand for you, and you land up trapping them by putting in a big raise after they have put down their bet. A lot of very aggressive players fit into this said category.

One can often come on top of these highly aggressive players and you don’t need a pair of pocket rockets to even do this. Their level of tolerance is extremely low; they cannot stand two checks, so all you need to do it play back against them on fourth street.

When you are running good, watch them. They will throw their hands onto the green felt, or whatever surface you are playing on, and you can win the pot really with nothing, and then the time when you really do have a killer hand and make a play, they’ll call you.

In poker: Timing is everything.