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Poker Strategy: Trapping Aggressive Players

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In Poker, there's always gong to be aggressive players, it's just the nature of the game.  One way to combat this is simply by trapping them.  To do this though, you must have first observed your opponent for awhile and "know" what they will do, based on how you play. For example, in this video, I knew positively without a doubt that this player would bet if I checked after the flop. In addition, I knew his range of hands were so wide that I was willing to "die" with my hand against him (or take a big hit). Basically, I wasn't folding top pair with top kicker against this particular player. Could have he gotten lucky and flopped 2 pair? Most definitely. Is it likely? No. It's more likely then not that he completely missed the flop, so armed with that information and what I knew about my opponent, I was willing to take the chance. Again, this was a pretty easy trap, but it's something that you should be using when you see aggressive players. In fact, against really aggressive players, I will do this exact move (or re-raise) with nothing.