Player notes, moving up, Laggin it up

[Lukie]

10max should be good for LAG because more dead money - therfore more hands get odds.

It has been my experience that 9 and 10-handed tables tend to punish overly loose players.

Agreed.
The more people at a table noticing that you are lagging it up, the more people will camp and come after you.

Right. You have to play smart. But isn't that the point of playing LAG? You get people to play back at you - usually in a way they are not used to doing. It actually happened to me last night. I was playing TAG and a maniac came to my table and went up big hitting lucky hands and bluffing. He made a big bet against me when I held top two pair with a pair on the board. I called and they had trips. I usually wouldn't make that call but they overbet and showed down crap so many times. If you LAG smart enough you will let hands go when you meet real aggression.

I've been playing TAG since my post because of table dynamics (and I'm doing well) but when the table gets less then 8 people, I open up more. I do limp one-gappers from the button now though. These hands are really paying off when ther are many limpers. Somebody hits TPTK or better and you can extract some money with a hidden straight.

I agree with you, but I hate when people defend any certain style of play with 'this one time, this player was doing this, and it caused this to happen, and he made a bunch of money', or anything similar.

I personally don't feel anybody should label themselves as anything, whether it be laggy, tagg, whatever. You should be playing based on the table, players, stack sizes, position, etc. and your style should ultimately be what you think will be the most profitable at the time. That means changing.

I'm sure you will get conflicting answers from different people on how I play. At times I can be a complete rock and just play PP's and premiums and only bet when I'm confident I have the best of it. Other times I can be very laggy.. especially on very tight tables. If I have a maniac on my right, I just love to hit that call button. If I have a smart, agressive player on my right, I may be raising with any 2. You get the point. Generally though, I would consider my play tight-agressive with a twist. One thing I universally respect though is position.. especially positional raises.

If you really want to open your game up, you just have to be careful WHEN you do it. A very fishy, full table is going to absolutely murder a loose player, regardless of how skilled you are. Speaking of how skilled you may be, a loose player should be more skilled then the vast majority of the players at the table, simply because you are putting yourself in far more marginal positions, often out of position, due to the lack of quality cards (in comparison) that you are playing. I'm just telling you to be careful since I know you just graduated NL25.. nothing against that.. but most of the players at that level aren't very solid by any stretch of the imagination.