Top Unusual Poker Tips to Confuse Opponents

Warning: Take Social Media Tips with a Grain of Salt

Social media content is often subjective, misleading and inadequate when it comes to almost every aspect of life, but especially narrow areas and industries such as poker. 

As Nathan “BlackRain79” Williams explains, since at least 70% of poker players are losing players, their advice can’t help you to become a winner but can surely help you lose more.

You can’t check credentials, experience and skills of the 99% of “advisers” on social media, so by following them you rely on unverified information of dubious value. 

Use Ax & All Suited Hands to Balance the Opening Range

According to Redditor named Charlie_Wax, the optimal way to balance your range of starting hands and worsen opponents’ understanding of your play style is including some specific cards there:

By widening your range with split hands like J5, you make it possible to cover a bigger range of straights than if you have only connectors, pairs and premium cards.

For the same reason you also should always call pre-flop as a disguise for your range.

Continue Gamble to Win More

If you do not play, you do not use your chances to win money. And if you play too safe, you become an obvious prey for perceptive regulars. So, if we are willing to believe a person named FjortoftsAirplane, you just can’t stop gambling if you want not only to win your money back but also multiply it:

”[Also, remember:] T5o is the strongest drawing hand in poker. It’s the only hand that can make any straight and also has the maximum number of flush draws preflop. The more hands you play the more likely it becomes that you will face a cooler. This means in tournament formats your goal is to win the tournament as soon as possible. The best way to do this is to bust players as quickly as possible. The easiest way to achieve this is to jam all playable hands.”

The logic is simple: if you continue to gamble no matter your results, your opponents will decide that you are whale or titled — and they start making mistakes that you can use to outplay them.

Fold Out of Position to Create an Image

If you start each of your sessions with repetitive folding out of position, your opponents quickly learn that any other action from you in this case is extremely dangerous for them — and begin overfolding. At least, that’s how Realdogxl explains the logic behind this strategy:

”After a couple of these bad boys your opponents now need to really consider betting or not when you check them. Instead of checking 100% of your garbage range to them like most reasonable heroes you now have a 5th Ace up your sleeve, you have NOT folded out of position and now they must consider whether you have a strong holding, even though you have done nothing more than check on the flop.”

However, if you notice that someone is close to cracking your strategy, you should turn 180 degrees and start to act completely opposite to throw off the scent and confuse them even more.

Play on the Button as This is a Weak Position

While all poker books describe the Button as one of the best positions because of how late you make decisions, some players offer to change perspective on it to make opponents anxious, as Del_3030 describes it:

However, for more confusion you can choose to rotate playing styles depending on period of time or other inputs at your discretion.