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Make no mistake about it: No-Limit Hold’em is all being able to read your opponents.  That’s why so many aggressive players are able to be successful in this poker variation because they have the ability to find passive players and exploit them.  Unfortunately though, some aggressive players try to act like poker is full of passive players and use the same strategy all of the time.   And when this happens, the table will figure the overly aggressive player out and start to call everything they do.

The only way to avoid this is to switch up your style of play to keep others guessing.  If you’ve been playing aggressive and getting away with semi-bluffs while not being taken to the showdown a lot then you might want to play a little tighter.  The reason you’ll want to play tighter is because the players who still think you’re being overly aggressive will be willing to call all of your supposed semi-bluffs and second-rate hands.  When this starts to happen, you’ll be able to reap the rewards of more chips as the other players fall into your trap. 

However, you don’t want to get stuck here though since others will adjust to this too eventually.  When they do adjust to your tighter playing style, you should switch back to playing more aggressive to keep them off balance.  The key when switching styles is to read how the table perceives you at any given moment.  If the table thinks that you’re playing one way, you need to change gears and start playing the opposite way to throw them off.