Aggressive Player on Your Left
There is a great advantage to be had when you have an aggressive player on your left. Any seat one, two or even three seats to your left will work. If you are playing tight or at least appearing to be tight, which means you are not mixing it up with the aggressive player (this works even better if you have more than one of these players to your left). What you want to do is let the aggressive players bet your big hands for you. Let’s say you get dealt AK in early position, you just call and sure enough, just like every hand, the aggressor raises. You just call the raise. Then the flop hits Kxx, you check he bets. The turn is a blank, no flush out there, you check, he bets, you check-raise.
Now you would be happy to take the pot down right here, but the beauty of many aggressive players is that they not only play aggressive, they get their egos involved and they hate folding to a raise. They don’t want to tarnish the aggressive image, so he calls and he calls the river bet too.
The aggressive player on your left can make you a lot of money and you only have to learn to check to them and let them be themselves. They can’t help it.
-this is Beginner’s Poker Blog Post #155
