Quote Originally Posted by pokerroomace
What being a careful LAG does is get you business on your big hands. There is more variance, but when a set hits with an ace out, shockingly some people will go all in on the flop if they have AK.
You'll get a lot of players stacking off to you with AK when the flop comes A hi and you flopped a set. you get it if you're LAG or TAG.

a couple of months ago there was a period where i would play hyper aggressive at the 6 max 25NL tables. i didn't do it for long but i was winning playing that way.
one thing i gained from playing this way was that i got much better at cbetting and stealing pots. i was trying to steal nearly every pot when i was playing like this. then when i went back to the 25nl 10 handed tables and started playing tight again i started stealing a huge amount of pots when i raised pf but missed the flop. i wasn't capable of making this play before. if you try playing TAG you might find that the skills you've gained from playing LAG might help you win more playing TAG.

if you're consistently winning then don't change your style and move up the levels.

also, why are you playing 25NL if sometimes you play 100nl?
i used to do this as well. a couple of weeks i was playing 100nl at party. but i've now decided to play in a structured way and i'll only be playing at 100nl once i've beaten 25nl and 50nl. (when i have a br of $2k)
Great post, thank you for your time. You may be right, sounds like I am just going through natural progressions you and many players have already been through. Maybe I need to try being tighter and see if I run even better while using my skills learned in being a LAG.

I'm not that experienced and just had stuck to playing TAG until recently. After reading half of Harrington v1 (much better w/ pot odds) and Gordon's green book (pre-flop bet I've cut out some chip leaks and I'm runing even better. 25NL seems even easier. I'm still at about the same flop % of 35% but I'm raising much less with certain cards and winning bigger pots on sets letting others limp and not wasting on sc's that miss and cbets that fail.

I've really been using cash lately to fund my tourney buy-ins, and my roll isnt enough for 100NL and barely so for 50NL. Been running badly recently at the MTT with 4 consective bustouts on heavily favored hands late in the tourney, plus the usual range of coin flip busts. I need to rebuild my roll reliably, 25NL is perfect. I was doing well in 50NL before the MTT swing, so I will move up when re-rolled properly. I just didn't want to risk going broke on variance, which is high with a LAG style.