Playing scared at the poker table is not the way to make money. A tight style is fine in the early stages of a tournament, but in just about every other playing situation, scared poker is disaster for sure. Scared players are usually playing at a table they shouldn’t be, in an attempt to earn back money they have previously lost. The stakes are big and they’re scared to commit money to hands without a monster.

These players can be bullied around all day long. They will only hit big hands on a small percentage, like all of us, and aggression will force them off all the others. When they do show aggression you can just get off the hand. These players will slowly lose their chips because they’re not aggressive enough to combat the other players’ aggression at the table. Scared money is dead money, there for the taking.