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Poker Playing Styles

There are two main styles of poker playing that people speak of, and four categories of “poker players.” You can play loose or tight, and you can find yourself categorized as loose-passive, loose-aggressive, tight-passive, or tight-aggressive.

Loose players are the ones who seem to play every single hand, always paying to see the cards. They almost never fold, but try to play every hand whether they’re good or bad. This is definitely not the kind of player you want to be; they do win hands every now and then, but because of their silly playing they usually win just by sheer luck.

Tight players are the exact opposite: they fold pretty much every hand! They’re very cautious players, and if they don’t think their cards will end up being the winning hand they’ll likely fold even before the Flop comes. It may sound strange, but by playing fewer hands you actually have a better overall chance of winning.

To these styles you can consider characteristics like aggressive playing and passive playing. This has to do with how the player bets from round to round, whether they’re very conservative and check or call all the hands, or if they bet wildly, throwing cash on the table every chance they get. Aggressive players will raise on pretty much anything, and that’s what makes them dangerous opponents at the table: because they’ll bet on anything you never really know what they’ve got. Passive players are a little easier to read because of their tendency to want to protect their chips; if a player has been playing passively all along, and then suddenly throws a big bet into the pot, you know they’ve got something.

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