AGGRESSIVE PLAYERS
Tough players tend to be aggressive poker players, but most aggressive players aren’t tough players.
Most of them are fairly transparent, and ten not to have very good table judgment.
Macho Players
There is a class of aggressive player who just enjoys dominating the game.
These players are often tight and aggressive and tricky.
There is a certain kind of tight-aggressive-tricky player on tilt who will almost always raise pre-flop with two big cards and limp with big pairs.
This certain kind of player will not give up overcards and will be aggressive with them, but will tend to try to trap you with a big pocket pair.
The term tilt comes from a pinball tilt. A player on “tilt ” is one who’s playing very badly as a result of some emotional trauma.
If a player like that raises before the flop and I can get heads-up with them.
I’ll always call with small-suited connectors.
With a player like that, I’ll know whether I’m likely best.
He’ll raise me on the flop when I’m best, and if I call or check then call on the turn, he’ll call a raise on the river with his Ace King. That’s implied odds.
An FPS Player on Tilt
One of the most aggressive players you’ll run across is a Fancy Play Syndrome player on tilt.
They can get more inappropriately aggressive than a table maniac.
Poker players with FPS tend to attempt to steal-raise (i.e., a player in the late position who open-raises in the hope that everyone will fold and that he can steal the blinds) before the flop too often.
They tend to always slow play big hands, like checking a flopped full house.
Players with FPS seem to tilt easily.
They think of themselves as tough, tricky players, and when their poker tricks don’t work, it angers them.
The frequent result is that they start getting more tricky.
They make more mistakes, not fewer.
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