How Do You Deal w/ Spite Callers?

[Matt R.]

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"Obviously you don't play these often, you have to make these calls." "The blinds are huge"

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I thought for a long time that as the online players learn more about poker, the games should eventually toughen up as they approach the skill level of solid 2+2'ers.
Then, comments like these remind me of the ignorance displayed at a typical poker table. Thank god for blatant stupidity, especially in games involving money [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img].

[Degen]

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Yes, I'm a big fan of opening up early on regardless of the level.

But... I don't mean to wait around until getting blinded out. There's still obvious push situations that you shouldn't pass up. Just don't be quite so eager to take your marginal pushes when the spite caller in question can cripple or bust you.

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so you suggest trying to spot the spite callers, but often times it is hard to do while 8+ tabling, and also when you spot him it may already be too late.

[citanul]

The first step to fixing this is to not attribute spite where there is none.

The people making these calls are 99% not doing it out of spite, they are doing it because they honestly think it is the correct play.

Regardless, you have to tighten up your range against callers.

citanul

[Shillx]

Tighten way up. Even more so with hands that don't run well against big ranges (stuff like A-small). Hands like KQ play much better against these types. Let other people make the mistake of pushing into him.

Brad