Player Type: Aggressor

When I join a new table, I am very careful about the hands I play. If dealt a top hand like AA or KK I'll certainly jump on, but otherwise I like to observe a hand or two to see how the other player's act.

Last time I played, one player stood out after just a few rounds. He raised and reraised most pots aggressively, with what turned out to be mediocre cards. Many of the players at the table were intimidated, and his stake tripled in a few hours.

Every table except for me contributed to his growing chip stack.

I adjusted my strategy to play even a bit tighter than normal, folding marginal hands I might otherwise play and only seeing the turn if the flop fit my hand well. When I did hit my hand, I reraised his raises and capped his reraises. I won several large pots from him before too long. After a while, he figured out what was happening, and I started to be able to get him out of pots by playing aggressively myself. Once he began to fold to my counter-aggression, that put me in a position to begin to bluff him with lesser hands.

Although the loose aggressive player did well against the other passive players at the table, my tight aggressive play consistently took money from his growing pile.