Hitting below the belt
April 26, 2008
There are a lot of ways to distract your opponents or to get them out of their game. These are the techniques that you might want to use if you are getting desperate already. One of the things that you can do to distract your opponent is to get him or her tipsy or drunk. This is obviously a below the belt way of distracting your opponent but if you get really desperate to win then you might have to bring out the tequila. A lot of people out there have a low tolerance for alcohol so with just a few shots of tequila, they may be going all in with a two seven off suit.
Aside from getting your opponents drunk, you might want to try to distract them with a person of the opposite sex. If you have a lot of guys playing on the table then make sure that you invite a pretty girl so that the guys will be thrown off their game. If you have a lot of girls then make sure that you invite a hunk to the poker table so that the girls will try to charm the guy instead of focus on the poker game. The opposite sex is certainly a great way to distract anyone.
If members of the opposite sex and alcohol are not working then maybe you should drown your guests with a lot of food. Sometimes if participants at the poker table are very full, they tend to get sleepy and sloppy. You will be able to take advantage of your opponent’s sleepiness during the poker match. When a person is sleepy and groggy, he or she will not care so much about the poker game. He or she will simply want to go home and sleep. Well, the buy in is already there so you might as well keep it there.
The bottom line is one thing, make sure you know what your opponents want so that you can distract them from keeping their focus. If your opponent wants a lot of food then give him or her a lot of food. At the end of the day, you will be the winner. If your opponent wants to socialize with a lot of people of the opposite sex then give it to them. Before you know it, your guests will be thinking about their dates instead of focusing their energies on the game. If your opponent wants to get wasted and tipsy then give them as much alcohol as they want. At the end of the day, you are still a winner. Hitting below the belt is really not allowed in the ring. If you are a nasty person that wants to get the whole pot then you might have to do things at desperate times. Everybody wants something. Everybody wants to get it. Sometimes you have something that another person has. Sometimes someone else has something that you have. If you want to get what you want then you have to be able to take the steps to get it.