Aspiring to be a good Tight Agressive player anyone got advice?

sumoward

The style of play I aspire to is Tight Aggressive. I believe this suits my personality best and when I pull it off or think I have pulled it off I get results.

I started out playing as weak tight and since I have come back to poker I have tried to get more agressive.

I was hoping that people may be able to give me some pointers in playing this style well.

Problems I have in Playing Tight Aggresive well are:

1. I can be over tight, especially in Postion.( I have got a bit better at this)

2.I often dont use my tight Image to Bluff at enough Blinds

3.I some times chicken out of betting out at a scary Flop.

4.Sometimes I think I over do the agresion. I went through a period of rerasing preflop on any hand I was going to get involved in. Reraising or betting at the flop no matter what it was or sometimes check raising the flop and then Betting out on the Turn.


Strengths:

I am patient and I am disciplined and I can usually lay down a hand if I am behind.I have stopped over playing AK.

I sit waiting for a hand I want to play, thinking "Play Tight, Play Agressive"!!!

Results:

I have got to the final table 4 times in my last 6 trips to the SE playing TAG(or what I imagine is TAG)

mewso

Probably a bit cliched but you need to avoid sticking to one type of play and start observing and reacting to the type of players at your table. Take advantage of the style your opponents use. Target tight players for bluffs, calling stations for maximising profits on good hands and so on. If you sit there and just wait for a premium hand then you become the most predictable player at the table.
TAG will work well against bad unobservant players who pay you off when you have a hand and can explain how you might progress to the latter stages of a tournament but once there the players are better, will spot your tight play and adjust to it properly, not paying you off on your good hands, raising your blinds and so on. So vary your game.

Gholimoli

read bops posts and adhere.

kebabfest

You're doing fine. I think the "fear" factor is inhibiting you for points 2 and 3. Also you'll find quickly if you dont vary your play your results wont improve as as the decent players in the SE suss your game out.
Especially in the latter stages of these tourneys you gotta have the ability to make moves if you want to convert final tables to decent cash.
In terms of your strenghts not overplaying AK is an excellent thing to have in your arsenal as it is amazing how often this is done even by respected "good" players.

sumoward

I am playing in the Paddy power $3,500 Guaranted Freezeout.

I have been trying to vary my play and want to post some hands for others to comment on.

How do I convert paddy power hand histories into something that I can post.

I also want to post the Luckbox Runner Runner hand I hit to double up and become Chip leader. It makes me blush to think of it.