By Eric Lynch
Spotting and attacking various types of players to accumulate chips

In my inaugural column, I discussed how we can both spot and attack weakness in players at the table. Another situation that we often encounter is choosing how and when to attack various players by opening the pot. So, rather than attacking people who already have shown weakness in the pot, we have to choose what kind of players to target without seeing any action in front of us.

There are several methods we can use to do this, and I’m going to try to provide a few examples of each type.

One way to attack players is to figure out what kinds of players are weak post-flop and single out those players’ blinds for raises. That gives you the double advantage of taking control of the pot preflop and having the weak player play from out of position. If I find that some players are particularly weak post-flop, I’ll try to raise their blinds as often as possible in an unopened pot. I try not to be so overt with it that other solid players pick up on what I’m doing and reraise my raises, though. There is a bit of an art to recognizing how often you can get away with things before people start to pick up on what you’re doing, but with some practice, it becomes second nature.

Another good way to single players out for target practice is by…. read rest of article at Card Player Magazine