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I help you categorize your opponents into their respective player types based on stats and tendencies. I also give some easy-to-use exploits against each.
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You MUST Understand Player Types
“The money available to a player winning long term comes from other players’ willingness to put money into the pot with bad hands that a perfect player would not play.”
– Ed Miller in his incredible book, The Course
This is exactly why we must understand player types and assign each of our opponents to one of them.
When you’re profiling your opponents, you’re looking for weaknesses. When you see those weaknesses, you know exactly how to play against them to earn their chips. You can also selectively target the weakest players who are most likely to give you their chips.
“Attack weakness, avoid strength.”
– Ed Miller in his incredible book, The Course
You’re looking to play more hands versus weak players and avoid hands versus strong players. Battling good players can kill your profits. We’re all playing this game, at least in part, to make money. Since it’s easier to make money versus the weak, that is who you MUST go after. The key to going after them is to understand and spot each of the weak players around the table.
You must become an active observer when you’re not involved in the hand:
- If a player just open-raised from the Hijack, and it’s the first hand he’s played in 3 orbits, he’s likely a tight player who only plays the best hands.
- Maybe another player makes her 4th limp in a row… she’s likely a Fish.
- Now a different player 3bets then triple-barrels down the streets with J8s after flopping TP. Wow! You found a loose and aggressive player.
Because you’re paying attention, you’re able to categorize each of these players and now you can use some basic exploits against each.
The 4 Common Poker Player Types
We use two different tendencies to put players into one of the 4 player types.
Tight versus Loose
A tight player plays few hands (VPIP < 20%), and a loose player plays a lot of hands (VPIP > 20%). 20% VPIP is just the cutoff percentage. Of course, players can be ultra-tight at 5% or ultra-loose at 95%.
Passive versus Aggressive
A passive player doesn’t raise preflop that often (PFR < 15%) and an aggressive player raises a lot (PFR > 15%). Again, 15% is just the cutoff with the ultra-passive player having a PFR of 1% and the mega-aggressive player at 45%.
Loose-Passive
LOOSE = Plays lots of hands; PASSIVE = prefer making checks and call; they love to see flops; they stay in way too long with weak hands and draws; #1 targets at the table; if they raise post-flop, WATCH OUT!
AKA: Fish or Calling Stations
Common VPIP/PFR Stats: 22/6, 28/5, 45/9 (Mention video in show notes detailing VPIP & PFR)
Color Coding: Green
Characteristic #1: Passively plays very wide & weak ranges. Not positionally aware.
Exploit: Play ranges that dominate theirs and isolate them (as limpers or in the blinds) whenever +EV.
Characteristics #2: Generally losing players.
Exploit: Target them and play as many hands as possible in +EV spots!
Loose-Aggressive
LOOSE = Plays lots of hands, AGGRESSIVE = prefers bets and raises; can be a high variance loser; they use the power of position yet they might not be that positionally aware when it comes to starting hands; capable of spewing chips in bad bluffing spots.
AKA: LAG, Donk or Maniac
Common VPIP/PFR Stats: 24/18, 36/24, 55/35
Color Coding: Orange
Characteristic #1: Too much aggression with weak ranges. Open-raises, iso-raises and calls too much preflop.
Exploit: Play with hands at the top of their range, and strive for IP play.
Characteristic #2: Constantly applies pressure.
Exploit: ALWAYS gauge how well the board interacts with their range. Be willing to call wider with 2nd and 3rd pair when they can be bluffing worse.
Tight-Passive
TIGHT = Plays mostly strong hands, PASSIVE = prefer checks and calls (but sometimes they’re aggressive with few calling hands); quick to fold post-flop; beware their bets and raises.
AKA: TP, Rock or Nit
Common VPIP/PFR Stats: 11/9, 11/2, 7/3
Color Coding: Red
Characteristic #1: Strong hand selection & positionally aware. Folds too often preflop and raises only strong hands.
Exploit: Play a wider but still strong range when IP. Call their raises with hands that play well post-flop and can crack big hands (good playability).
Characteristic #2: Doesn’t often fold to 3bets and 3bet = the nuts.
Exploit: 3bet and 4bet with the best hands to get value from his tight range.
Tight-Aggressive
TIGHT = Plays mostly strong hands, AGGRESSIVE = prefers bets and raises; can be winning regs; multi-tabler; quick to fold most marginal spots post-flop and when OOP.
AKA: TAG, ABC or Reg
Common VPIP/PFR Stats: 12/10, 18/13
Color Coding: Yellow
Characteristic #1: Plays multiple-tables, so they’re selective, patient and they choose the best starting hands (small & value intensive range).
Exploit: Play strong hands against them, but speculative hands can crack their strong ranges.
Characteristic #2: Quick to fold weaker pairs and draws because they see little value in these hands.
Exploit: Bet and raise to earn post-flop pots, make sure your size hits their “pain threshold” so often at 2/3 pot or more.
Here’s my challenge to you for this episode: While you’re playing your next session, set a timer to go off every 10 minutes. When it does, pick a table and think about each player there and describe all you know about them – player types, weaknesses, how to exploit, etc. This will train you to profile your opponents and it’s a great way to test that you’re paying attention.
Now it’s your turn to take action and Scooby-dooby-doo something positive for your poker game.
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There is one fun fact that you have probably never heard about. Did you know that there are 100 million poker players in the world? Only 60 million of them are from the USA.
From these 100 million poker players only a handful will make it into the professional poker scene like Bryn Kenney or Daniel Negreanu. A player earns the right to call himself professional when his daily job is to play poker and can sustain all his economic needs from this practice. This requires learning, practice and patience. The place most of them started was playing small stakes tables at trusted online casinos or poker rooms, such as the ones you can find at holdemrealmoney.com. New players can test the waters by claiming no deposit bonuses or entering free poker tournaments before even deciding if they want to join one of these sites.
Now let’s take a look at the top 5 poker players in 2020.
1. Bryn Kenney – Best Poker Player in the World
Net Worth 2020: 55 million
As we said, the biggest number of poker players is located in the USA. Because of this, it doesn’t need to surprise us why a person from the United States is the best poker player in the world.
Bryn Kenney’s career started in 2007. Since then his success kept growing. For instance, he won a WSOP bracelet in 2014 at the $1500 10-game Mix 6- Handed event. Despite that, he has made amazing 7 final WSOP tables and cashed 32 times. This includes the 28th place when he was involved in the Main Event in 2010.
Believe it or not, his largest single cash was made in 2017. The value of that single cash was $2 million dollars! Since then, Bryn Kenney usually ended top-five finishes on most of the tournaments.
In 2019, he earned a huge amount of money at the Triton Million. He finished in third place and earned around $20.5 million dollars.
The current net worth of the best poker player in the world is $55.5 million dollars!
2. Justin Bonomo
Net Worth 2020: 45 million
As you see, we have another American as the second best poker player in the world. Actually, Justin Bonomo was in the first place previously. Two years ago, he won the 2018 WSOP $1 million Big One for One Drop. In that tournament, he earned $10 million dollars! That reward pushed got him to first place. Yet, Bryn Kenny pushed him away from the spot.
2018 was the year of Bonomo with some amazing wins whenever he played. It seemed that he knows which moves his opponents are going to make. Believe it or not, he had 10 wins in a row from different events across the entire world. One of them was the May Aria Super High Roller Bowl. Winning the reward on that event brought him $5 million dollars. He also played at Macau Super High Roller Bowl where he earned another $4.8 million dollars.
Currently, Justin Bonomo net worth is around $45 million dollars.
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3. Daniel Negreanu
Net Worth 2020: 42 million
The third best poker player in the world is the Canadian – Daniel Negreanu.
People that follow poker actively know that the nickname of this player is “Kid Poker”. Well, just because he is currently in the third place that doesn’t mean his career was always amazing. He spent considerable time to find himself on the list of best poker players of all time.
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Still, he had some huge hits. Believe it or not this guy won six WSOP bracelets. He reached the final tables for 38 times and he has cashed 108 times. This includes the 11th place that he won in 2001 and 2015 WSOP Main Events.
We need to mention one thing that many poker experts have noticed. Negreanu has an unbelievable ability to read his opponents and shift his playing style accordingly. That’s probably the reason why he is one of the best poker players ever.
Daniel Negreanu net worth is around $42 million dollars thanks to this entertaining game. He is definitely one of the most famous poker players of all time for his charisma with fans and media.
4. Dan Smith
Net Worth 2020: 37 million
Well, many people will tell you that Dan Smith is not a vocal player. Yet, step-by-step he succeeded to reach the All-Time Money List.
Everything has changed 8 years ago because 2012 was a turning point in Dan’s career. He won the first place at the Aussie Million Poker Championship $100.000 NHLE event. At that event, he won around $1.04 million dollars. Yet, there is one more amazing thing that he did 6 years ago. In only 4 days, he won three NLHE events in Monte Carlo. That was probably the biggest win that he achieved during his entire career.
In 2018 he made it to the top 6 players in the world by ending 3rd place in 2018 WSOP Big One for One Drop cashing $4 million dollars. Despite that, his biggest career cash was at the Triton
Million. He won nearly 8.8 million dollars.
Currently Dan Smith net worth is around 37 million dollars.
5. Erik Seidel
Net Worth 2020: 35.7 million
On our list, Erik Seidel is the “old man”. He is 60 years of age but it seems that he doesn’t plan to retire. He is one of the original players from New York City’s Mayfair Club. The members of this club were also Dan Harrington, Howard Lederer, and Stu Ungar.
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During his career he won the WSOP bracelet for 8 times. Despite that, he made unbelievable 35 final tables and 92 cashes. His largest cash payout was made at the 2011 Aussie Millions poker
Championship $250.000 Super High Roller NLHE event. On that event, he earned around $2.5 million dollars. In 2010, he was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.
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Erik Seidel net worth is around $35.7 million dollars. He is a good example that it is never too late to play poker and have fun.