Beating fish in poker is super easy, but by focusing on these 3 key aspects, you can easily make more money (with less variance) against them. The first way is

Don’t be surprised to see larger open raises and bigger continuation bets happen more frequently, and be prepared to adjust your own bet sizes on fishy tables to take advantage of the situation. One thing you have to be certain of is what you want to achieve with it. Do you want to create a bigger pot, reduce the number of opponents involved or get more value out of your strong hands?

It all starts with your preflop raise sizing. If you apply the same 2.2x raise that you would normally do against regulars, there may have been a limited amount of callers but the new mixture of players results in more calls and represents a wider and less-predictable range of hands to make post flop play more challenging.

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Experimenting with different bet sizes comes with a cost and your short term profit goes down but you will be able to digest whether or not other players at the table adjust their sizes and furthermore determine which sizings force more folds and which ones invite fishy players to stick around. Larger sizes preflop require a plan beyond that and it is perfectly okay to shut down when facing resistance as long as you don’t give up on all of your +EV poker bluffs.

Limping Preflop In Fishy Games

In many textbooks about poker, you will read that it is a bad idea to limp too often and you should pay attention to your table position if you do so with what you perceive as a fishy player also getting involved. There is no need to limp in with every suited or connected hand because it is very cheap as you then may face a tough decision postflop when you hit top pair against multiple opponents.

Spots in which a limp can turn out to be quite profitable depending on your position and whether or not there are fishy and aggressive players behind you. Those playable pocket pairs or suited connectors that can hit gin on the flop don’t always have to be raised to bloat up the pot with three callers, and capable regulars may toss in a squeeze once in a while to take advantage of the dead money in the pot. You shouldn’t be limping with the same hand range all the time either as other players will pick up on that rather quickly, as you would be doing against fishy opponents.

Changing Seats For Ideal Position

As soon as you have identified a fishy player at your local casino it may become very tempting to ask for a seat change if there are open seats available. But is that always a good idea or will you get too comfortable and not max out your potential? A decent player can take advantage of the position most of the time but may not be invited to those juicy private games after all, and their own learning effect is limited.

Being put in a tougher spot may not be fun but provides the opportunity to learn how to dig yourself out of a deep hole, adjust to entirely different table dynamics as new players join and as a result become a better and more balanced player. Also keep in mind that you only have this option in cash games sessions.

The lessons you learn from not being in the perfect position can become very valuable in poker tournaments when a potentially big payday is on the horizon and in which you cannot influence the random seat assignments.

Conclusion & Cliffnotes

Don’t let the frustration about the outcome of a certain hand or running not as good as usual decide over your next actions at the table but instead think proactively and carefully consider your next moves from a logical point of view.

As a final reminder, here are the key takeaways for making correct strategic adjustments in these kinds of fishy games:

18. Use bigger bet & raise sizing when your opponents are inelastic
19. Avoid risking too many chips on bluffs when fewer would get the job done
20. Limping if valid when raising creates a less ideal outcome
21. Don’t limp suited trash over estimating implied odds and under estimating reverse implied odds in these games
22. Seat changing is an option, but should be avoided in most scenarios There are plenty of other ways to adjust to fishy tables as well, and actually things we can learn directly from these players. For more, check out this article by Sky titled “What Poker Players Can Learn From Fish”.

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