Beating up on the weak player
Since your opponent is weak, he won’t give you much information about his hand by the way he plays it. Generally, an inadequate player will check and call with either a made hand (like top pair) or a flush draw.
As a rule, proceed cautiously if a weak player calls you on the flop. If you have a good hand, by all means, bet. But if you are bluffing, lean toward checking on the turn card since the weak player has shown some interest.
There is an old adage in poker that I think sums up that last point: “If you bluff a bad player you then become one.”
Stay aggressive against weak players, but don’t get caught running without the ball when they show interest in the flop…
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Poker lexicon:
- FLUSH - A poker hand consisting of five cards all one suit.
- WHEEL - A-2-3-4-5. Usually discussed in the context of lowball where it is the best possible hand. Can also refer to a 5-high straight in high games. Also: BICYCLE.
- SPLIT [THE POT] - To split the pot between two or more players. Related term: QUARTER.
- PASSED OUT. - A hand in which nobody opens. What happens next is a function of the game being played.
- BURN - To discard the top card of the deck prior to dealing, usually done for every dealing round except the first. The theory being that if somehow the cards are marked (illegally) no one will know what card will next be dealt, only what card will be burned. This makes marked cards less of an advantage, hence tends to reduce cheating.
- LIMIT POKER - A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. Ant.: NO-LIMIT POKER.
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