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Table image and switching gears

  • 02-04-2006 4:55pm
    #1
    corblimey
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    I like to play a tight sort of a game (I try for tight aggressive but I'm not quite there) and so when I shift gears in the later levels, it's a lot easier for me to pick up pots uncontested.

    Since shifting gears and exploiting your own table image is one of the basic tenets of playing long term tournament poker, I can't imagine how this would work for a loose aggressive player. If he splashes the first few pots with nothing, then tightens up and doesn't enter a pot for a while, he's not making any money. Plus if he reverts, then anyone who saw him earlier in the day is going to have him as LAG and start betting at him.

    I just don't see a LAG can operate.


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  • #2
    cardshark202
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    Controlled LAG is the most profitable way to play poker in general. Thats being very general and is just my opinion.


  • #3
    pok3rplaya
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    cardshark202 wrote:
    Controlled LAG is the most profitable way to play poker in general. Thats being very general and is just my opinion.

    Thats highly player and table condition dependant surely? LAGGing it up at a 10NL table full of calling stations is going to be very -EV. You can't bluff players who can't fold. The most profitable way to play poker in general is to react to what is occurring around you.

    Corblimey:
    LAGGs make a lot of their cash because of the way people react to their style (ie. not believing their raises, calling them down etc.), it generates action so that when he actually catches a hand he'll make more off it then tight players would. Thats how he can exploit his image. By playing his strong hands the same way as he plays air. Plus when it goes to the bubble and you're starting to open up he 1) Hopefully has a chip lead by splashing around earlier and 2) is already raising a wide range and being aggressive enough.


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