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It's about time I wrote a Hold Em Poker lesson that revealed simple and effective ways to utilize aggression tactics. No matter how long you have been playing poker, or how much you have use aggressive strategies in the past, I know that you, like me, will be able to cream the competition and rake in chips left right a centre using the aggression tactics outlined in this article.
Hold Em Poker Lesson - #1 Way To Be Aggressive
The first and best way for anyone to be aggressive is to use the ol' raise or fold tactic. This involves restricting you play to either one of two moves raising or folding. You completely abolish checking and calling from your vocabulary. The only options you have are to raise or fold.
You'll be surprised at how effective this can be, and how fast you become a very good poker player because you are forced to constantly make strong decisions.
Hold Em Poker Lesson - #2 Way To Be Aggressive
Another way to be aggressive is to use follow up bets, aka continuation bets, also know as firing another shot' or firing another barrel'. What this involves is following up pre-flop aggressive with post-flop, turn or river aggressive even when you didn't hit a strong hand. The faade of actually hitting can win you a lot of pots when you opponents just fold out.
Hold Em Poker Lesson - #3 Way To Be Aggressive
One of my favorite ways to be aggressive is to build up an aggressive image, just by playing consistently aggressive for a while, and then, when you are in the blinds pre-flop, come over the top of someone with a massive raise. If you usually fold out from the blinds and have a tight image this will make everyone think twice and you can often clean up quite a nice pre-flop pot using this tactics.
Now before you go on and learn another Hold Em Poker lesson or get your hands on new Hold Em poker tips, think about how helpful these ways to be aggressive have been for you. Imagine being very strong and aggressive at your next poker game and realize that you will be able to clean up easily because you read this article.
