The Timid Poker Player

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Playing Characteristics

· Tight
· Passive
· Responsive
· Lose only small amounts at a time

Dangers

· Avoids rewarding confrontations
· Sometimes weak-willed
· Sometimes pessimistic or fatalistic
· Can be pushed around
· Can be nervous and tense
· Can be afraid to take reasonable risks

Summary

Timid Players fold at the first sign of trouble. They also prefer calling to betting or raising.

They are easy to bluff.

When they call, they have the goods.

They are what people call a tight/weak player and are actually a rare kind of player at the lower limits!

They have the intellect of a good poker player, but they need to develop internal fortitude and a killer instinct.

Positive Traits

· Avoids and escapes traps
· Sensitive to the ‘mood’ of the table
· Kind to other players
· Self-Protective and Security-Loving
· Stingy with chips
· Alert and reactive

Ways to Improve

'Timids' need to be more assertive with your best hands.

They should practice thinking in terms of raising or folding, instead of calling. Calling is too comfortable for them.

They have a good sense of when they are beat, but sometimes fail "to call it down" when the pot gets large.

(e.g, Sometimes, the pot is so big that you only need to win one in twenty hands to make a call worth while, but a Timid layer just folds)

Generally, timid players can make very good poker players once they gain confidence and learn to raise and reraise. They have a natural sense of "impending danger" which most players lack.

A very good drill for a Timid player is to play a wild player heads-up. They should bet and raise as much as possible.

When working on the Tilted Donkey's tutorials Timid Players should pay attention to cases where the suggested play is to bet or raise.