Being a tight player can often be very smart. After all, if you only put your money on the table when you have the best hands, then you are automatically increasing your odds of winning. The problem is you fold so many times the one time you do decide to call, everyone at the table knows you must have a really strong hand. Fewer people call and the pots you end up having a chance at winning are, on average, very small. There are some things you can do to get rid of this ‘tight’ appearance.

Things you can to do look like an easy mark:

1. Play with low cards. Only do this when it won’t cost you much. The point of this is not to win the hand, but to lose very little money, and, hopefully, a whole lot of respect by the other players. Call until the very end and show your cards. Make yourself seen as the ‘easy money’ at the table.

2. Ask questions. That’s right! Ask a few questions about hand rankings. You can do it during a hand or after you have shown your cards at the end of the round and try and argue your hand is higher than someone else’s (who really does have the higher hand), then say, “Oh, a flush is higher than a straight?” The bewildered face always helps sell it.

3. Have something to eat. Eat sloppy, spill a little mustard on your shirt. Get some food around your mouth. Order an alcoholic beverage. Now you look like average Joe who is at the casino just to have some fun and lose a little money. Just sip on that drink though, don’t chug it back. Order a Pepsi and bring it to the table during breaks. It looks the same as a rum and coke anyways. They’ve all seen you order rum and coke, and assume you have got some more. You are getting drunk.

4. Be loud and obnoxious at times, quiet at others. This will only help to further confuse them. You’re a loud and annoying player who can’t play, can’t eat without causing a mess, doesn’t know hand rankings in poker, and plays with crappy cards.

Congratulations. You have no ones respect and they are all clamoring to take your money. Isn’t acting fun?