How to Bluff a Calling Station
Standard advice in game against those who call too frequently is straight and idle: to value-bet more hands and not to bluff. It is a strong, profitable strategy, and I am not inclined to treat it differently. Nevertheless, I do not believe, that you will increase the profit as much as possible, adhering to a strict rule «never to bluff against Calling Station ». Actually, because loose players have more probability of presence of weak cards in comparison with tight players, sometimes it is possible to bluff successfully against them in some situations in which against tight players it is impossible. Everything, that is necessary for it is persistence and a good choice of the game moment.
You are beat?
Players who call too frequently usually are considered to be bad players with loose strategy. Actually, the majority of them are such players. Nevertheless, especially, when they are in a position their aspiration to call the raises on pre-flop and continuation bets on флопе, almost with any hand, can be actually absolutely destructive for the player applying a tight-aggressive style of game, recommended by the majority of strategists of poker. Think, that standard strategy in non-limit holdem is the introduction into pot on pre-flop by the raise, the rate on flop irregardless of whether it has come or not, and then to surrender on turn if your opponent has not made till now the fold, and you do not have strong hand. This strategy if it is applied against the loose player who is in a position against you, will cost several banks to you when you will do the check-fold of the best hand on turn or to allow your opponent to show on opening weak, but an advantageous hand.
It is worse that, even the loose player who has got used to the fact that you surrender on turn, can be frightened and thrown off, when you, really, have a monster, and you continue to put. Though this tight-aggressive style of game still, possibly, will show profit in long-term prospect, even if this player is out of a position against Calling Station, however he will leave much money if he does not adapt to loose game of the opponent on a table.
Use of mistakes Calling Station
As the very name means, use of Calling Station to your own advantage it flows out from the fact, that he calls too much. In other words, he plays too many weak combinations, constantly putting in bank more money, than his hands are worth of. It is bad for two reasons; one is more obvious, than another.
The obvious reason is that Calling Station puts too many money, being behind. That is, it will call the rates, having the worst hand, and improper chances for improvement. The way of use of this mistake is obvious. It shows that for betting there are more hands than for value, being assured that your opponent can and will call you frequently with the worst hand.
But the risk of presence of the worst hand is not the only reason for the fact that calling with a weak combination is expensive. It will be sometimes correct to dump a weak hand, even if you suspect, that it can be simply the best because you do not have enough hope of improvement, and it cannot sustain the further action. If to play against players who will not dump these «hopeless hands» up to one rate when they had to make it, then to put it in the second and in third time will be profitable.