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k2o4 United States. Dec 25 2007 12:56. Posts 4803

I'm in Michigan right now with my mom's side of the family, as per family tradition. We went to church last night and did the Christmas Eve service, which was filled with new wave Christian rock which was horrible. This is the 1 time of the year that I go to church and every time it reminds me why I don't go any more than that.

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Getting really sick and it sucks, plus went through absolute plane hell getting out here. The airport we were flying into lost power so we ended up sitting on the runway for 2 hours hoping it would come back. No luck so they canceled the flight and we spent the night at the airport. They then lost our bags and we JUST got them today after many hours arguing with the baggage people on the phone. All of our presents were in the bags, so we're in the process of wrapping them now to then open them in an hour or so. Fun.

Anyway, played some poker last night after church thinking the tables would be soft since last year it was an easy easy night. Maybe the microstakes were fun, but NL100 was a rockfest. I had the same 3 TAG's on all 4 of my tables and I kept leaving to find new ones and there were more TAGs everywhere I looked. After a lot of searching I did find some fish and was able to pull in a 3 BI win, but it was hard fought money every step of the way.

My conclusion is that NL100 is harder than NL50. Maybe I just ran into tough tables, but man, when the tables are though it is a real battle. I opened up my range a lot and played about 20/17 and that was nice and seemed to work. But it was really hard to get any value out of anybody. Barely any big pots went down but I did come out on the winning end of my 2 All-ins.

I'm very confused on how to handle so much more aggression. Lot's of 3bets and people are trying to steal pots left and right. Running into a lot more raises than calls, which is new to me. I started check-raising a lot more (I usually do like 1 a session) especially vs people who liked to bet any flop that was checked to them. Had to get a bit trickier to get paid off.... Feel like this was the first time that I really had to change up my game from solid / standard TAG to be able to win. Very interesting. Jamie, I need lessons!

I think NL100 is going to be where I being to learn a LAG style. Till now TAG has been ideal but I think I'm gonna have to become much more LAG now. I figured by NL200 I'd have to make that change anyway, so this is a good time to practice and make the transition.

Anyway, I made a new thread on the forumz about 2 hands that confused me. A little help would be much appreciated. Click here and help a NewB out.

Merry Xmas!

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