Question on Aggression Factor
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 137
If a player has a high aggression factor would that in turn mean that his check-calling range is stronger than average?
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 3,876
stronger than the average, yes probably.
strong as in absolutely, no.
I would be interested in the views of others - it's a good question for BQ.
Join Date: Dec 2013
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Let's say he checkraises more often than others and the AF does not come from other situations. He could do that with mostly bluffs or mostly the nuts, they do different thing to his range. I think this totally depends on how much of his range he folds and which parts he checkraises instead of calls.
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 1,097
When considering a player's range, his aggressiveness is only part of the equation. The other important part is how tight he is. In other words, a check-call by a loose-aggressive player reflects a different range than a tight-aggressive player. There are other important factors, of course -- including board texture, number of players in the hand, action on previous streets, etc. -- and those need to be taken into account as well for the purpose of interpreting what a check-call implies about the player's hand range.
Excluding all of the other factors and just focusing on the factors relating to aggression and tightness, I would expect the range of a TAG who check-calls to be stronger and smaller than the range of a LAG who check-calls.
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Join Date: Dec 2014
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I think it depends how he got his high AF. Some nits have a very high AF, because they usually have hands worth value betting. When they check-call on Kxx, they usually have QQ.
If someone is a super-aggro LAG that has been betting all kinds of low equity stuff, the check-call is sometimes a sign they absolutely smashed the flop. i.e. When a known maniac check-calls, it's often because he has the nuts. Maniacs love slowplaying when they finally have a hand.
