Poker strategy against amateurs!?

Question

I'm playing a poker game tonight, and I need a strategy to beat my competition, they are amateur and they call close to anything.

It's tournament style, One buy in.

Answer 1

only an amateur would have to ask

Answer 2

if you think your a pro, you should understand the game enough to break even,

at the very least........

Answer 3

Dont raise preflop as it will be more likely to get callers, out play them postflop. Play small ball poker with them. Keep your pots small but consistant. If  you get monsters , hammer away prelop and postflp , make them pay. As they are likely to pay you off with marginals as 2nd pair or draws.

Also what he said was very helpful. Use your position to your advantage. Bluff on scare cards that they reconginze ( flush cards paired boards.) Pick out which ones you can easily move off hands and pick out the ones that dont fold ATC.

Answer 4

pick strong starting hands, play conservatively, bet your hand. the odds will even out. avoid players that go all in randomly. there's going to be that one time they hit their outs, or they may actually have a hand. going all in hides the strength of their hand. try to find a newbie that is a calling station, and gently massage the pot, about 1/2 of what you would do against regular players (since you want to play defensively and avoid them when they hit their hand.)

probably the best advice I have vs newbies is you can't stop them from making their hand. so, what you have to do is:

a) don't try to push them out of pots unless you have at least a pair to minimize your risk

b) bet less than you normally would to minimize your commitment.

My usual betting pattern vs a calling station is:

After flop: 1/2-1X pot

After turn: +1 BB to the previous bet (if i bet 100 before, bet 120 now.)

After river: 2-3X bb, if there's no straights or flushes on the board.

Answer 5

Ignore everything and listen to me. play small ball. If you can limp alot with most things suited and connected. If the flop fits stick around. The biggest tell in poker is a drastic change in betting patterns. If it gets expensive and you have the nuts {best hand possible} tax them hard. don't over bet small 2 pairs or better and giggle 3 hours later when you are counting cash. good luck.

Answer 6

Play conservative. Wait for a huge hand and win a big pot, then the amateures will see that you are only playing if you have a good hand. That should give you a little room to bluff once or twice. Be cocky with amateures and win a pot and they get all shaken up.

Answer 7

the easiest way to beat calling stations is to try to make hands against them...obviously, it is easiest to wait for good starting hands and then punish them by raising, but one effective strategy i like to use is to play any two remotely playable cards against them, and hope to flop a big hand and win a lot of money...however, if i were you i would avoid the second strategy unless i was completely confident in my reading ability post-flop, because you will have to make a lot of tough decisions...and obviously, when you make your hands you need to be aggressive with them

Answer 8

do a lot of value betting with rare bluffing and an occcasional slow play just to change it up tight aggressive style works good against loose passive people

Answer 9

Play tight.

Play occasional trash to throw them off (without losing too much on it).

Play hard when you get a good hand.

And most importantly, never forget that the guy next to you that goes all in with a pair of twos can hit an Ace-high flush just as easily as you can.