When it comes to playing poker online with real money we must have the basic knowledge of poker strategies. here in this article, we will discuss loose passive and aggressive players of poker game.

LOOSE-PASSIVE

The loose-passive player goes to a lot of hands pre-flop and calls a lot post-flop. You have a tremendous need to participate in as many hands as possible, and you often hold out to the end without having the slightest chance of winning. It goes without saying that loose-passive players, also known as "calling stations", have a total disregard for the pot odds. When we actually play poker online

Players in this group play for purely recreational purposes and are repeat losers. As it is easy to deduce, they are the type of players that we are most interested in having at our table. Bluffing doesn't work against them, and it is certain that periodically they will supply us with hateful bad beats, but if a tight-aggressive player plays enough hands with them, he will inevitably end up pocketing his money.

What should we do if our natural tendency is to play loose-passive? Two things. Play fewer hands, and play the hands we are favorites in order to win more aggressively. Of these two things, the most important is the last one, because although there are players who win playing loose (especially in no-limit), there are no players who win playing passively. Passivity in poker is incompatible with winning game. So it's about making fewer calls and more raises.

When playing against a loose-passive we must refrain from bluffing and never slow-play when we have a good hand, since we know that they will call us with anything. When they raise us, we should fold unless we have a good play, since they sure do.

LOOSE-AGGRESSIVE

The loose-aggressive player goes to many hands and plays them aggressively. He usually does many re-raises and many bluffs. Although most of these players lose in the long run, they are dangerous players, especially those who have the loose side of their game under control. In No Limit Hold'em tournaments, luckily they accumulate chips quickly and become the dominant forces at the table they occupy. In cash games, it is less uncomfortable to play against them (mainly because the blinds do not go up and you can wait for a good play to catch them).

Due to the number of hands they play and the aggressiveness with which they play them, the advantage these players have is that they get a lot of action when they make good plays. That means that when they have a streak of good hands, they tend to accumulate large amounts of money. Normally, when a tight-aggressive player loses a lot of money in a session, most of that money ends up in the hands of a loose-aggressive player. Allan Schoomaker, the poker psychiatrist, argues in his book, "The Psychology of Poker," that loose-aggressive player have a drive for prominence and a great need for action. And really, they get huge doses of both.

If our natural tendency is to play loose-aggressively, we should strive to reduce the number of hands we play, discarding mostly trash suited hands such as J5s and others with a negative expectation, going to fewer raises pre-flop with hands that can be dominated (AJ, KQ ...), and learn to fold when it is evident that another has a better play.

While we face a loose aggressive player when we are playing online poker we must lower our requirements when evaluating the plays with which we continue post-flop, since we know that many times this type of player goes with nothing or very little. We must also raise with less good plays than usual (especially on the river), but instead we must dose the bluffs. It is good to be seated to the left of a player who is very loose-aggressive, since this way we can "isolate" him when he raises pre-flop, with hands like A-10, for example; Of course, for this the rest of the table must allow us (if they play well, they will realize what we are doing and they will re-raise us frequently).

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