This is a progressive series about the various personages that you will come across while playing poker.

Ally or Enemy?

Don’t event think that a bookworm can be your friend because it will only spell out disaster. They might put you in a verge of craziness when they start teaching you and other players on how to play the game and telling all of you what’s right and what’s not. Their kind is really annoying. They are full of bad habits like criticizing someone when they made a bad play and laughing at their mistakes. The concerned player may wish to transfer at a friendlier table or will try to redeem himself by playing a lot better. It only means one thing, you should not worry about the ordinary skills that the bookworm may have but let your concern dwell on how they behave at the poker table.

Selectivity and Aggression

The bookworm is usually tight during pre flop. But their game play crushes during the post flop. This is because they have read a lot of books which causes all those ideas to rumble into their heads. You see, the authors of those books have justified all their mistakes in poker and write it out. As a result the bookworm will stack all those ideas and will cause his play to be too loose and too aggressive during post-flop.

A lot of poker players agree that the power of your starting hand is essential and this is the only aspect that the bookworm truly understands. Other than that, they know nothing.

The bookworm is somehow aggressive. They are particularly happy to bet but if someone take the chance to play against them they will scared to wits unless they have an excellent hand.

How To Predictable They Are

They know a lot of deceptive plays but they are not the deceptive types. They are too predictable to be deceptive. They show the same game play every time they encounter a particular hand. If you are observant enough you can read the bookworm clearly.

Poker IQ

This type of poker personality has a very low poker IQ even if they knew a lot about poker through the books they read. But in the moment of truth and when something inevitable happens they don’t how to make adjustments. Their number one problem is that they only follow what they read from the books and never think for themselves. The author of the books they read generalize the advice they gave and is not applicable on the bookworm’s present condition because it varies. They worship their books like it is the word of God and they think that by reading them they will know what to do on a specific condition.

“Hey, BOOKWORMS You’re playing poker not building a desk, you can’t just follow instructions!”

They think that all people should follow what they think is right. They are ignorant of the motives behind the moves of other players. They are really like narrow minded folks of the worst kind. That’s why they tend to criticize and laugh on other people’s mistakes and teach them what they think is the right way.

Adjustments

Defeating a bookworm is quiet easy. You only need to befriend them and try to converse with them and because they like to brag about what they know they will eventually boast about it and will gradually give away their game play at once.

If the above mentioned strategy won’t work, then the best thing that you should do while playing against a bookworm is to stay aggressive. Bet them to the hilt and let them know that their moves don’t scare you.