For certain poker players it can only take one or two bad beats, or even a couple of regular beats that they shouldn’t have won anyway, to get them into the mode of ’steaming.’ When a player is steaming, he is usually playing too wide a range of hands, anxious to get in more pots than they should be in the mindset of getting their money back. A steaming poker online player is often prone to find themselves caught in tough decisions, or worse, an extreme dog for all the money, as will happen when playing faster than usual.

When a player has taken several beats in this way, and then continues to enter pots raising, many players will assume then that his holdings aren’t that great. He’s raising because he is steaming, and not because he actually has a hand.

One way to deal with this kind of spot is allowing that player to hang himself by continuing to bet into you when you have a monster. Because a player who is steaming is usually more willing to try to pounce on weakness, feigning that weakness can be better than raising with the premium goods.

In other situations, trying to raise and isolate this player because you know he will be behind most of the time can also be profitable, though you won’t want to chase him down trying to bluff, as often these players will come after you with less than they might usually. Remember this when you play poker online.