Last night at my local casino I played using this starting hand range and was pretty aggressive post flop with the right board texture and I have to say it was my best poker ever. I played for about 8 hours.
I noticed I was the most frequent raiser at the table, which is weird, because it made me seem like I was loose. Towards the latter half my shift, almost no one was respecting my raises, and almost everyone would call my $10-$12 raises, where in the first half I would get a few people to everyone to fold.
I also noticed out how I was the only person raising more in LP which makes me think that no one really paid attention to position. Kind of crazy in this supposed modern age right?
It was fantastic poker and a lot of fun, because before I tried this style out, I was nit, which is so ****ing boring.
The only ****ty thing that happened was completely my fault, as I played until I was exhausted and I was so hopped up on caffeine I didn't realize I was tired, and finally towards my last hand, I made a horrendous mistake and got too aggressive in a bad spot and I got felted. I went from level 2 to level 0 poker in that last hand.
I'm going to start using a timer on my phone and after x hours, have it buzz off every 30 minutes so i can ask my self the question, "Am I playing my best poker?", and if not I'll go home.
As to this style, I really like all of the raising/opening, especially in position, as people can't put you on a hand, we have more information and it opens us up to some fantastic play which can only be done in position.
On my reflections on the 80 or so $1/$2 regs at my casino, I notice there are very few players that play TAG at my casino, and several of the young guys who grind are just nits, they aren't playing TAG. I wonder why that is? I can guess when we have a lot of loose spazzers, nit is the way to go, just wait for a good hand and crush gamblers. The loose spazzers aren't giving us any fold equity which is important to a TAG( at least I believe ).
But when the table is fairly nitty and or passive, that's when being a TAG shines, against these passive players.
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Also on the OP's point:
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1) TAG raise unopened pots. Yes this means you open with 55 in MP. Simply put, there's not enough 3betting going on in most LLSNL to worry about this being wrong.
This is really great, because if we do get 3 bet, there's a narrow range we're up against, generally JJ-AA, I don't see villians 3-betting AK too much, but it does happen. But the point is, we can generally fold and wait for better spots to combat villians.
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I do have one question, I play in 9 handed FR games.
I was dividing the table into groups of 3 for EP, MP and LP, maybe I was doing this wrong, and thus raising too much; but I assumed,
SB, BB and UTG where EP.
UTG+1, MP, MP+1 were MP.
And HJ, CO and Button were LP.
Is this right?
Last edited by oldschool_vegas; 03-19-2014 at 04:43 PM.