Once you have played poker long enough, particularly at micro or low buy-in stakes, you will come across a player who, for whatever reason, wants to try and bluff at every other pot. We call this type of player a ‘maniac’ or ‘aggro fish.’ To be able to properly defend against this type of player […]

When you sit down at the poker table, there is a variety of players you could be facing, all of whom play a different way. One of these players is the ‘fish’. The ‘fish’, in poker slang, is a weak or inexperienced poker player and when faced with a Fish, you have to be careful. […]