Nit player

What Is a Nit in PokerA poker player who is very tight or overly cautious in their play is known as a nit. Nits stick to a strategy that avoids bluffing and focuses on strong hands, leading to a tight range of play. Pre-flop, they typically raise only with top-tier hands like AA, KK, QQ, AK suited, and medium pocket pairs. When you’re playing on BLITZPOKER, you might run into players who play very cautiously. If you can spot this style, you can change your strategy to exploit their predictability. You might want to use a more aggressive approach against them.Post-flop, nits are predictable and prefer value betting with strong hands such as top pair, two pair, and sets. They rarely bluff. This style can be exploited by skilled players but often works well against loose, less skilled players. Many nits play multiple tables online.The term “nit” might come from “nitpick,” though this isn’t confirmed. A nit enters the pot only with strong holdings. If we see an opponent playing very few hands and folding often pre-flop, they are likely a nit. Nits play very tight, aiming to engage in big pots only when holding monster hands.How to Spot a Nit at the Poker Table?A nit is a player who only bets when they have a very strong hand. If you see an opponent barely playing any hands and folding most of the time before the flop, they might be a nit.Is Nit Style Play Profitable?Nits aren’t typically the best

At some point in your poker journey, you will hear the phrase “tight is right.” A nit takes this phrase to an extreme, utilizing a strategy that is about tight as you can get without folding literally every hand. Most players hate nits because they do nothing but fill a seat that could otherwise be filled by a fish. But in the event you are a nit, I’m going to try to persuade to you stop this behavior today.What Is A Nit In Poker?What is a nit in poker? A nit is a poker player who uses an extremely tight strategy, who plays very few hands, and who aims to only get involved in big pots with monster hands.I run ThePokerBank’s YouTube channel (over 90K subs & 11M+ views), and as you can imagine, the comments on these free poker videos range from really solid players to results-oriented players to fish to ultra-nits. A while back I got into a quick back-n-forth with a player who said we should fold an overpair + flush draw getting 4:1 against our opponent’s all-in. He then went on to make the comment that:No reads, fold all day in 1/2 or 2/5. Nothing wrong being a nit.Now, many of my students have been nits. I used to be quite nitty myself. Heck, you can even find some old videos of mine where I offer very nitty advice. But in today’s games, a nitty style just doesn’t cut it. So here are 5 very simple reasons why there IS something wrong with being a nit, and what you can do to fix any nitty habits you may have picked up along the way. Being A Nit Messes Up Your FrequenciesWhether you know it or not, you have frequencies in your own strategy. So if you only open a range of 22+/AJ+/KQ from middle position, that is a 10% poker range. This means that your open-raising frequency from MP is 10%. And due to this fact – it means if it folds to you in MP there is a 90% chance you fold your hand.That’s easy enough to understand – but the frequency issue is more prominent postflop for nits. Take a common situation where a nit considers folding. The nit raises preflop with AA, gets 1 caller from the blinds, and ends up facing a huge CR on a flop of J♠ 8♣ 3♥. Let’s

Explore the frequency issue.Say the nit actually raised preflop with 22+/AJ+/KQ and then decided to CB 64% of the time (with any pair nines or better and whiffed AK/AQ). If, after facing a CR, the nit would only continue with 2pair+, they would only continue 11% of the time. That’s right, by only continuing with the effective nuts, the nit is folding 89% of the time and anybody can bluff them with impunity.Even if you tighten the CB range (and take out the AK/AQ combos) AND loosen up the continuance range to overpairs + sets, the nit is still folding 48% of the time.This same situation comes up again and again. Nits face aggression, and they only want to give action with 2pair+. Why? Because 2pair+ is a pretty strong absolute hand strength. Nits fail to think about hands in a relative sense and as such end up making huge folds because they fear monster hands that may or may not exist. Heck, think back to the J83 hand from a moment ago and think about how many monster combos villain could have – and if you say villain could have two pair then think about all the other possible combos they are playing too…Being A Nit Makes You A TargetWhen nits mess up their frequencies and end up having huge gaps between their ranges – anyone who is paying the slightest bit of attention will notice. And once people start noticing, they will start taking advantage by raising the nit more and more. (This is even easier to pick up when playing online poker (although in Finland they are all online casinos or kaikki netticasinot in the local language))Now I can already hear a nit saying “well, there are no good players in my game and nobody would ever notice my frequencies.” Maybe that’s true, but more often than not it’s actually quite false. There are players who pay a lot of attention AND use that information against you that you would never realize are doing so. So to reduce the entire player pool to a lump of dolts that has no ability to gather or use information is insane in 99% of situations.The issue with being a nit is that everyone can take advantage of you easily. If you double barrel with 60 combos but only continue against a CR with 12 combos, you are folding a ton

For us to get away from hands that might be more difficult against other player types. And that frequency issue and all the frequency issues that they have, become easy, easy ways for us to just abuse and exploit them in every single session. All of the tips and plays we discussed today are frequency-based and exploit frequency leaks in the nit strategy. And to be honest, every play you make in poker is based upon understanding and exploiting frequency issues near opponents game, whether they’re a nit, a tag, a fish, or anything in between. This stuff is super, super important. And it’s so important in fact that I created a free webinar to help you understand this concept and put it to use. With five bluffs, you can start implementing more often and with more confidence. And best yet, you don’t need a PhD in math to understand it. Sign up today over at www.splitsuit.com/frequency and see how a frequency-driven approach to poker makes your life easier and more profitable. I look forward to seeing you over there!