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Posted Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:02 am GMT by scoreyual
conservative, aggressive, or super aggressive?
i always try to go into a home game trying to be aggressive, but i always end up playing conservatively... how can i changes this?
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Posted Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:54 am GMT by TxShadow
Play aggresively.
Posted Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:02 am GMT by xDiamond_CutteRx
I almost always play conservatively in cash games (relatively, of course), but prefer to be slightly more aggressive in tournament play, but I'm usually quite selective in the early rounds or until the game becomes short-handed. Most of the time, my opponents are so bad that the aggressive (ie loose) style is ineffective, and the conservative plays are rewarded often enough to make it worth it.
Posted Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:43 am GMT by TxShadow
| TxShadow wrote: | | Play aggresively. |
Joking btw, I meant to respond right away but I got sidetracked.
Just try to use your chip stack as a tool. If you sense any weakness whatsoever, take a shot at the pot right there without hesitating. If you're not betting into the nuts, you'll probably win the pot right there. Don't be afraid to fire at it again if you get called and still don't think they have anything. Also, pay close attention and play when you're in position. Getting to see how your opponent bets or checks or calls before you act is a huge advantage.
Also, you have to vary your playstyle to fit how the table is playing. If you're playing against a bunch of new people that are going to sit there and call you down everyhand because they don't know any better, taking stabs at pots is gonna cost you money a lot of times.
Assuming the people you're playing know what they're doing though:
If you start playing aggresively and the table starts getting aggresive too and there's a lot of action, switch gears and tighten up your play and starting hands. Take down a couple of pots with smart, solid play. When your opponents calm back down, start stabbing again.
You have to apply what's right for the situation, hope that helps a little.
Posted Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:44 am GMT by snoogins47
| scoreyual wrote: | conservative, aggressive, or super aggressive?
i always try to go into a home game trying to be aggressive, but i always end up playing conservatively... how can i changes this? |
You might not want to change it.
I can get pretty hyper aggressive with the situation warrants it, but that's precisely the deal: the situation warrants hyperaggression.
You don't want to be working toward hyperaggression if your opponents call all the time. You want to be working toward making the most money. And sometimes that requires a style that doesn't steal very many pots... (and sometimes, it requires you try to steal every pot ;p)
Posted Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:12 am GMT by Muck
Be flexible and adapt to your environment/table.
This is obvious in tourneys because the blinds and number of players changes so your play must too. In cash games I find it’s harder to decide how much you should adjust your play...if at all.
I’m a conservative player and recently I’ve been playing mainly cheap ring games. The majority of players are very loose and aggressive or loose and passive. So I’d usually just wait for a monster to pick up a nice big pot.
But a couple of nights ago I ended up being seated at a table that was quite passive for a change and found that I couldn’t get paid off on my good hands. So I just increased the frequency of my semi-bluffs and continuation bets and found that although I wasn’t taking many big pots I was taking a lot of small ones.
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