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Originally Posted by bigboy5540
BTW, when fnord says that you should pick your spots, he is just saying to play tag but bluff every so often.
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Not really. A big part of my pre-flop game is getting out of dodge when predictable players pick up hands and getting in there and gambling with really terrible players. Lots of my posts advocate this approach.
I'll let you in on a few secrets of the LAgg.
Their approach to the game is very exploitable. However, many tighter player at the lower stakes don't have the sack to continue with weak hands against a very loose + aggressive opponent who more than likely has nothing. Hold'em is a game where more often than not, no one has much of anything. If somone is opening lots of pots, it's really easy to buy-in a little short (100bb or less) and nail him with re-raises pre-flop to eek out a small profit. Hence, LAgg is in there trying to induce otherwise tight players to play his game of no-showdown-value-hole-card chicken, because he's better at it than you are. He's also really good at picking up on spots where you're going to try to bluff him.
Stealing pots from tight players isn't the big gold mine of LAgg though! Most of the money in poker comes from the bottom x% of truely terrible players. LAgg is in there gambling with them, grossly out-playing them and often stacking them before you get a shot. He's not waiting for Aces/set to stack the table calling station when TPNK will do.
Finally, rake is a huge problem for the LAgg. He's moving around a lot more chips and paying taxes on all those extra pots he needs to win to keep up with tighter players with a comperable win-rate.
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