DAVE SCHARF’S PLAYER CLASSIFICATION 6

6. The Fox

Finally we have reached the classification that all us poker players are aiming for! Foxes know exactly how to play and always maximise the amount of personalized poker chips they win. They have absolute knowledge of hand value, pot odds etc. but they know exactly how to classify other poker players at the poker table. They know how they will play their personalized poker chips from each position at the table. They can tell what strength cards you will play and how you play aces from early position for example. They can tell when you are check-raising! Once you have become a fox, personalized poker chips will come flooding in!

The fox never makes mistakes unlike the other poker player types you will come up against. For this reason, you must be especially careful with your personalized poker chips when you come up against a fox. If you see a poker player making completely different play depending on their position at the poker table, you can gamble a lot of personalized poker chips on the fact that they are a fox. Positioning is so important in the game of poker, especially Texas Holdem (many poker players do not understand this). If you are finding it hard to classify a poker player at the poker table, if you sometimes think they are a rock and sometimes they portray themselves as a maniac, keep your personalized poker chips safe as they are probably a fox!

You can tell a fox if they raise and then fold to a re-raise of personalized poker chips in the same betting and gambling round. They don’t only think about the poker hand they hold, they also think about what the other poker players in the pot are doing. They consider pot odds, hand odds, whether a bluff may succeed in that particular instance etc. Our advice is very simple. Don’t try to outwit a fox, try to be a fox! Even if you are a fox, you may as well extract as many personalized poker chips from those less qualified poker players than you. If a fox sits at your table, try to vary the way you are playing your gambling game of poker much more than if you were sitting amongst a load of screaming fish. You need to make some unexpected moves and bets with your personalized poker chips. Try bluffing unexpectedly to keep the fox off guard, flashing a card as if by accident to provide imperfect information. As soon as your poker play becomes too predictable, the fox will snatch your personalized poker chips from you very fast.