Thoughts on Aggression & June Update

having a high pokertracker aggression factor doesnt make you a good or profitable player, ignore it and play good poker. be aggressive in the spots you need to be aggressive in.

im channeling the talented one

On June 29 2007 23:40 TalentedTom wrote: honestly who gives a shit about these numbers, you should play slightly different against different sets of players - increasing your aggresion factor will lead to...? who the hell knows, this is not how you should approach poker. think about each hand independantly and anylize flop textures. eg if you raise pre w/ any 2 and flop comes 225 c-bet 100% of the time similarly against aloose player if the flop comes high cards always c-bet as his range contains alot of low connecting garbage + a bunhc of high/lo cards like A6, K8, which rarley hit flops hard

Thanks

Heres a hand from today too:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/221453

Leading up to this, I have been very quiet for a solid 2+ orbits and this guy has been to my right the whole time. I for w/e reason, decided it was time to re-establish myself as someone who isnt just waiting for AA/KK and the sorts. Why I picked T4o, I dont know.

Anyways, preflop, I raised 2 1/2 BBs after action folded around and the sb limped. He had a sizeable stack as well. I was easily top 10 in stack size at the time and he was prolly top 30? Just a general idea.

Moving on, I felt he doesnt have much of a hand at all throughout this hand because he can easily make a small raise to pick up my blinds or attempt to. Anyways, flop came 7 2 5 with FD. Of course I whiff. My plan was to make a standard CBet to try and push him off. I dont quite remember how long he took to call, wasnt painfully long by any means. Given the texture of the flop and check call, I figured he was playing some sort of draw/weak pair. Turn came Kc putting a 2nd FD on board. I made another bet, and again, not too much deliberation, he calls again. River whiffed for every draw (34, 46, 68, and the two FDs). Given that I figured he is either on a weak pair or was drawing to something, I fired one more, hoping it comes off as a value bet type. I know hes a thinking player (checked his pokerdb, $2.4k winnings with 3 wins) [or is this just a very marginal assumption?] and figured hes capable of putting me on a range.

Now my question is, did I simply just tried to bluff a station? or was there something flawed with my lines/thinking?

Dont be so fixated on T4o though, I realize thats an atrocious hand and I honestly have no defence for it

youre a coward

i like that hand in a cash game against some players, although i might bet a little smaller on the river just to fold out the draws. in a donkament it is awful because the players are awful, so unless you know this is a thinking player its just spew.

61k hands.. i only got in 23k. How many tables do u usually play?

5. But when I play on my desktop, I play 9

Most of it this month = 5 tables though.

my AF is 4.89 including PF numbers and 4.38 without them. high PF AF just means you're mostly fold/raise and rarely call raises/limp (i only ever limp behind people and i very very very rarely do that, i only do it if i'm on the button and there's 2+ limpers who are all shortstacks that never fold to raises when they limp) and i 3 bet some low pairs/high cards that others would call with against some people, in some circumstances (20% PFR guy opens CO/button).