: 11/2009

Player Types You'll Encounter in Your Home Game.

As an avid poker player, you’re probably not a stranger from throwing together a nice home game where you play your friends for bragging rights or even for money. There are all types of players you’ll encounter at these home games, some of them easier to beat than the others, but all of them beatable nonetheless. It is seldom that a reasonably good poker player (who is not a loser online) will encounter any sort of real challenges in such games. Here’s a run-down of the most common player types you’ll encounter in these amateur games, just to make your task of breaking your opponents down even easier.

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