Countering Table Style Poker Strategy in Texas Holdem

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"After an orbit or two of the dealer button in a tournament, say you're in the second level or third level, you should have a pretty good sense of what the general attitude or player type of your table is. Now sometimes early in a tournament unfortunately you will be moved, but most of the time you will be able to stay at the same table for a few levels. Let's say here we're the dealer. And in front of us we've got an early limper. He's probably is slow playing, in my opinion mistakenly, a big hand. A couple players after him got someone who raised. And then I'm the dealer. I look down at my hand and I've got king jack suited. It's a marginal hand. And as it happens this table has been playing very tightly. So, I don't really care what the two guys after me have, although they may already have me dominated. I'm concerned that at a tight table this person limped early and this person raised. And even though I'm on the button, I'm gonna say, you know what, I'm throwing that away. Let's take another scenario. Let's go ahead and take these cards and fold them. Say that they're in the muck because everyone has folded around to me. I look down, I see my king jack suited. I'm on the button. After the flop, I'm gonna be the last to act. And I've already got the information that all the spots in front of me, two thirds of the table folded. So, what am I gonna do? I'm gonna try and take down the blinds and raise it up three times the big blind. And these guys, since it's a generally tight table unless they have monster hands, they're gonna look and they're gonna fold. They're gonna look and they're gonna fold. And I'm gonna scoop this pot."