Beating a solid player is the most difficult task while playing online poker. Solid players are the most dangerous for your money, and the best way to make money with them is to avoid them at all costs.
Solid players are easy to spot, they usually play at several tables at the same time and they call the preflop only with good cards, discarding all crap and when they call they play aggressively, this is the tight – aggressive play that you must target for yourself and to avoid from other players.
When you come into a table, look for the donk. There is always a donk in a table, if in 15 minutes you fail to identify him, you are the donk and you must run from that table ASAP.
As stated before, the best way to make money from solid players is just not to play with them. When you play poker your goal is to make money and you are not going to make good money playing against solid players, you must live on donks or other more predictable players. Playing poker is not about the competition, it is about making money, if you see the table is full of solid players just go to another table where you can find someone more profitable for you.
A good solid player will avoid you too if you are another solid player, it makes no sense to play against a good player when you have plenty of donks around the net, so if you play solidly in a table you’ll see how solid players leave the table as well.
Solid players always go suited to the flop, if they haven’t got a good pocket pair and know the basics like “AJ off” is just crap and will never play this hand unless there is a maniac in the table playing any ace, then for sure they will play AJ.
If for any reason you got to play against a solid player, play the same as you do, but be a little extra tight if you are playing in a money table so you can wait for fish to come to the table while you spend the less money. The reason is that if you are not better than your opponent and you both play well your cards, in the long run you will tie, but the house will keep the rake, so you’ll both lose.
Keep track of solid players if the software allows you to do so, or keep a manual record in a sheet so you can recognize them at a first sight before sitting on a table. 1 or 2 solid players are ok in a 10 player table, but more than that is too much and the table is not going to be profitable, leave it or choose another one if you are not playing on it. To avoid losing money is the same as winning money, remember this for a future, it will be very useful for you.