Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Poker Personages : The Bookworm

By Kallikrates Sabas

As you play the game of poker you will encounter different kind of personalities as you go along. Here are some of the most common profiles of poker players that you might come across.

Enemy or Friend?

Don't event think that a bookworm can be your friend because it will only spell out disaster. They might put you in a verge of craziness when they start teaching you and other players on how to play the game and telling all of you what's right and what's not. Their kind is really annoying. They are full of bad habits like criticizing someone when they made a bad play and laughing at their mistakes. The concerned player may wish to transfer at a friendlier table or will try to redeem himself by playing a lot better. It only means one thing, you should not worry about the ordinary skills that the bookworm may have but let your concern dwell on how they behave at the poker table.

Selectivity and Aggression

The bookworm has a compact game before flop. But their weakness would be seen at post-flop. This is due to the number of books they have read, a jumble of ideas in their head and will have concepts fighting to one another inside their minds to find them continue during post flop. Those poker players who wrote a book about poker have justified their weaknesses inside those books. So the bookworm will continue to base his game on these books and picked up all the weaknesses inside all of it. With this, you may expect that a bookworm will play a loose and too aggressive game during post flop.

And because the only aspect of poker wherein the general poker players agree would be the strength of your starting hand, then its the only part that the bookworm truly understands.

To summarize the game play of a bookworm - they are somehow aggressive in their play but will play loosely when someone aggravates them with the only exemption of them holding the best card in the table.

Predictability

The bookworms are very knowledgeable, no question on that. They know how to play but they are not deceptive players. They are very predictable because they use the same style every time. You will predict their hand at the moment by checking out what kind of move they made.

Poker IQ

This type of poker personality has a very low poker IQ even if they knew a lot about poker through the books they read. But in the moment of truth and when something inevitable happens they don't how to make adjustments. Their number one problem is that they only follow what they read from the books and never think for themselves. The author of the books they read generalize the advice they gave and is not applicable on the bookworm's present condition because it varies. They worship their books like it is the word of God and they think that by reading them they will know what to do on a specific condition.

"Hey, BOOKWORMS You're playing poker not building a desk, you can't just follow instructions!"

They think that all people should follow what they think is right. They are ignorant of the motives behind the moves of other players. They are really like narrow minded folks of the worst kind. That's why they tend to criticize and laugh on other people's mistakes and teach them what they think is the right way.

Adjustments

In order for you to defeat a bookworm, it is important that you become their "friend". Then start up a talk with them and they will show you what they knew and will eventually brag about their game play.

But if that won't work, you can just play aggressive. Don't let them scare you, make it the other way around. Make sure that you will put up with their game play and show them that you are not afraid of them.

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