You are at the flop with a solid hand, now what? Many of us put so much effort into preflop play that we don’t build a solid postflop game. Postflop as preflop knowing who you are playing against and adapting your play to combat them is essential.

Overall there are 4 main types of poker player, tight-loose and passive-aggressive. In free online poker micro stakes (.02/.05 blinds), each style of player tends to make certain key errors. In this free poker online article focuses on postflop play against the Loose Passive type opponent.

How to Beat the Loose-Passive (LP) “Calling Station” Player Form

These people are usually limping or calling hands preflop rather than raising often.

Postflop they normally check-call down whilst only betting or raising their very good hands.

LPs are really easy to whip, and you run into tons and tons of them in micro stakes games. Generally, you need to broaden your valuebetting range against these players and never bluff.

So you can often bet down (bet all 3 streets) using hands such as weak top pairs and even 2nd pair against many of them and simply check/fold your bluff hands. Once you get raised, you should realize that your second pair and even top pair hands become pretty useless and it’s probably best to fold , though, as is always the case, it does depend on the particular opponent.

Draws are also very easy to play against these guys. Just check doen until you hit the draw and then bet for value.

Out of position, don’t be afraid to lead on flop and turn if you hit a pair. In micro stakes games you will not get exploited by the loose passive types as you might be if up against some loose-aggressive and tight-aggressive players, and, being passive they’re not likely to bet so you will get more value by doing this.

And keep in mind there are degrees of player styles. Some TAGs are almost LAG, some TPs are almost LPs, etc, so you have to adjust your play to your individual opponents, these player types are just a tool to help you do that.

Unfortunately learning how to identify and then make use of known player styles is hardly an exact science. You need to practice your game plenty though for some of you it will come faster than others. In your early poker days be sure not to risk very much if any money while you learn.

Start of with the lowest stakes games or with free online poker games and work up from there.

For the huge edition of this article which covers all the player styles and adds some further postflop tips see the free online poker education blog at NoPayPOKER.

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