When you are on the poker table, there is a higher chance of boosting those chips stack when you play aggressive. This means that you do more of raising and betting than just calling and checking.

Being aggressive does not mean just pouring it all out. It means calculated aggression on the table to make everything work to your advantage. When you have a better card, better poker skills, or better position, there is no reason why you will not play aggressive.

Let us say that you have an Ace-King and the flop gives you King-Ten-Seven. You have a top pair and an excellent kicker but you might remain a bit hesitant especially when the flop comes with suited cards and your hand might just be broken by the turn. You need to protect your hand and be aggressive. If your opponent bets on you then you have to raise. The goal is to give your opponent a hard time with wrong odds on the pot. Don’t give them the opportunity to improve their hand.

Use aggressive Play to Buy Position

When you have good cards on your hand you must act aggressively to push other players out of position. This means that you can by the position during the pre-flop betting where there will be players acting after your call. Limping in will not do any good.
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What a redonkulous fold by Mike Matusow. For sure he’s supposed to go broke here if Johnson really did flop an Ace high flush or a King high flush… You have to put him on two pair, a set – or AsXx – not a hand that beat him…

What a bad fold. BAD BAD FOLD. Even IF the spade would have hit – this was just cooler – and overplay by Johnson.