The Over valuers - Guide To Poker Players

The most common type of player in today's fast paced world of poker, 'Over-valuers' have a reasonably good idea of hand values and will understand that when they've flopped top pair that they are in a decent position. But 'Over-valuers', similar to 'Fish' will not consider what their opponents hold, concentrating only on their own cards.

Over-valuers do exactly that - they over value the cards that they are holding. Players like this tend to place far too much weight in suited cards and will quite often play bad hands such as 10 and 3 simply because they are the same suit. They don't consider the fact that flushes are relatively uncommon (given the number of overall hands played during a game) and that even a top pair of 10's (should the second one flop) is still not great given the over-pairs that can still beat them.

Over-valuers like the big cards and so while most of us would throw away a Q 2, over-valuers will play it simply because they hold the picture card Queen, believing that a second Queen will flop and win them the game. Of course they are forgetting one simple thing - not all big cards were created equally so even a pair of Queens is no good if the King or an Ace flops. What's worse is that even if their opponent only holds Queen high as well, a 2 is no good as a kicker!

Of course knowing this can help you spot an 'over-valuer' at the table but be wary because like the 'Fish' they do over call and as such you will need a winning hand to beat them. Be careful, players like this will play anything that is reasonably connected so if the board flops low cards then there's a good chance that they could win as many will play low connected cards.

On the upside though, you can loosen up your play against them - you know that they will play low pairs or low connected cards so it pays to go to the river with them. Also, they don't tend to bluff, they call and raise because they believe they have the best hand which is not necessarily always the case!

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