How to deal with aggressive players? Easy, here are some principles to keep in mind if you are playing against an aggressive player which might help you to keep your calm and feel very comfortable against these types of poker players. You may:

- Switch the games, if you're playing at a cash game where an aggressive poker player is there and you're having difficulties to take any dime against, then choosing another table might be a solution.

- Or just wait until you have the nuts, a solution is that you wait until you have the nuts and the take everything from him but this is probably very hard and may take a while.

- Get fed up with him, if you feel a weakness exploit it by forcing him to make a decision by re-raising all in with a decent hand. You might get called and win as he would probably think you're bluffing.

- Talk, whenever you win a hand let him know that you're the best and is playing so good and if you lose tell him that it's their fault for playing stupid, this might work. What I mean there is that you should do what Hellmuth usually do.

- Try a limit game that will for sure stop his aggressiveness.

- By playing tight against him, you won't win as many pots as him but make sure that your winning pots against him are big and his winning pots against you are small.

Mostly you have to stand up for yourself and believe in the style that you play, don’t be afraid to call/raise him if for a second you think he has junk. And yes, you may have to defend your stack, don't play if you weren’t willing to risk all your poker chips when you have the best hand.

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