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k2o4 United States. Jan 03 2008 00:06. Posts 4803

Well after playing a marginal winning session (about 2 buyins) earlier tonight where I dumped about half my winnings away in the last 5 minutes, I felt hopeless. I sat down a few hours later and inspired by a comment Myth made in one of my hand threads about playing 30% of his hands, I decided to really go for it with some LAG play. I've always been a pretty wussy LAG whenever I try it and end up reverting to TAG play. Hell, my lag attempts usually turn out with me playing 20/18 which is pretty much good TAG play, and when I try to play TAG I'm like 17/14.

It was a weird experience but after establishing the image I was able to push my big hands all-in and get calls where I used to get folds. I played many draws like the nuts and did make a few mistakes with bad pushes and I must have gotten stacked at least 5 times during the session, but I found lot's of good spots to bluff and triple barrel profitably on top of getting paid off on good hands. It was a really nice session and I think I sucked out just about as much as I got sucked out on.

Here's the stats and all that jazz for today overall. I think this second session was about 6 buyins while the first was about 2.

It really felt like playing LAG was starting to make sense. I hope I'm not just lucksacking my way through. I definitely have a LOT more to learn and am gonna go whore some more CR vids, but it was the best feeling session I've had in ages. I would have come out with about 11 buyins if not for 2 really stupid pushes where I wanted to reverse time and undo them the second I made them. hehe.

EDIT: adding my 7 biggest losing hands. advice is much appreciated!

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/350881 - bad push. very bad push.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/350882 - bad read and bad bluff. I thought he was weak enough to push off for some reason. this was early in the session and I feel I learned a big lesson from it.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/350883 - had history with him and had been very aggro and he'd been playing back. I thought he'd come with me very light and he'd also been raising my Cbets a lot. This helped set up another push later where I stacked him 150BB deep, so I dunno if it's sooo bad.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/350884 - cooler imo - think I have to push the river... but maybe check/call it?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/350885 - think I could have found a fold here but didn't stop to think after he CR'd Ai

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/350887 - cooler again I think - felt like a good call

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/350888 - guy was pretty lag and I thought I might induce him to bet it all the way with a smaller PP. = dunno, probably a lot of reasons this was a mistake.

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Last edit: 03/01/2008 00:52

JoeDeertay United States. Jan 03 2008 00:45. Posts 1730

GJ keep it up!

Variance has a big brother named doomswitch. - edzwoo

lachlan Australia. Jan 03 2008 01:07. Posts 6991

TAG less stressful

full ring

JoeDeertay United States. Jan 03 2008 01:18. Posts 1730

On January 03 2008 00:07 lachlan_fearn wrote:
TAG less stressful

QFT

Unless you are 24-tabling TAG, then it's about the same stress level haha.

Variance has a big brother named doomswitch. - edzwoo

Last edit: 03/01/2008 01:19