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Well balanced poker players use bluffing as a poker strategy, but is also one of the most unused tools we have in our poker arsenal. We have seen, in our everyday poker play, lots of bluffs thrown random without a certain reason or without a plan from the beginning. Players who bluff just for the sake of it, or to see if they can get away with one, must remember that bluffs in poker must be played methodically, not randomly. As a poker player, if you choose to play in low or medium stake games where the player pool is substantial, you don't need to bluff often at all. Actually, a low stakes player should pull bluffs only against other players that he/she plays with on a regular basis. I know it sound awkward, but it's useless to bluff a player you might never play against in the future.

As I stated in the Bring Out The Beast article, this is the second part of the story. If the first part was about what aggressive game play is and about two of the most common reasons why you should play aggressive, in this article we shall get deeper into the action and develop your game even further. Being greedy is a great quality on a multi-table tournament than at full ring table. This is because in a multi-table tournament the blinds will keep rising, they will get to a new level every ten minutes, and you have to do the same in order to win. It's exactly like fishing in a pond with 9 other people and when the fish is caught by you and three others, you have to do something to get it for yourself. Stealing the blinds is not the worst way to win a hand in a multi-table because this will ever increase your stack with more chips, but in a ring table is like you are trying to show everyone you always hit premium hands, but you don’t and you make a fool of your self when you loose.

Poker pros are commonly described as tight and aggressive: ”These poker pros do not play many hands, but when they play them, they play like they had the nuts”. That’s a nice general description, but it doesn’t say much. And it’s not  even totally right about no limit games, as a solid loose, an aggressive player is a person to be feared. Thus, when I think people say a player is tight/aggressive and therefore good, I really think they mean that the player has mastered four critical elements of poker.

We had to talk about this eventually, I mean, people usually ask themselves if there are any poker strategies that if applied, may improve their cash winnings. Sometimes is best to bring out the beast in you and let it enjoy feasting on chips and messing around with the other players' actions. This actually clears a path to  profitable poker, but if you raise pre-flop without consideration, the urge to control puts you in serious post-flop trouble. The no-limit Texas hold'em is defined by the raising action, forcing the other players to make mistakes while under pressure, so you can scoop as many chips as possible whether you have the best hand or not.