Have you ever had the problem where no one is paying you off when you have a hand? There's a way to get around that. Usually, as we discussed last time, the way the game works is that nits beat stations, stations beat maniacs, and maniacs beat nits.
The problem is, many stations these days are a bit savvier than they used to be. In the early 2000s, people lost their money pretty quickly. Nowadays, many people have realized they can't just call any river bet with any pair they have.
This is a problem because the biggest bet by far is the river bet. How do you get those river bets called when you have the goods? Well, you want to have a better hand than most stations when you're betting. That's why nits beat stations. However, you don't want them to think you're a nit. What you want to be instead is a fake maniac.
How do we do that?
Well-timed aggression
People tend to generalize some aggression with consistent aggression. If you just do some small, well-placed aggression, people will generally overcompensate versus you.
Let's say someone is opening too much. You should three-bet with any hand that is better than their wide range. The consistent three-betting will make people think that you're wilder than you really are.
Does someone constantly call on the flop with mediocre pairs and high cards? Then you should over bet versus them on some turns. When people see some three-bet bluffs, some over bet bluffs, they'll definitely think you're always crazy.
What happens now is that they have that perception of you. Now they're going to pay you off on more rivers than you deserve.
The best players are doing it
A lot of the best regulars in your games probably already do this style, you just didn't realize it. When they three-bet they make a big show out of it, when they do a big turn bluff they do a big show out of it, but they're really just cherry-picking situations when you probably called them too much on the flop or you're opening too much.
When they're actually river betting a huge amount, they're not bluffing that much in that situation. But everybody believes they are because they've seen the smaller aggressive moves earlier in the session. You can use the same strategy versus anyone around the world.
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