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Originally Posted by RottPhiler
To get stacks in light, which is really the question, you need to build a LAG/bully image while having the discipline to not get caught up in the highs and turn into a maniac yourself, i.e., you have to make poker a game of psychology.
You need to push people around and have the table bowing to you until they feel compelled to play back at you. This pushes them out of their comfort zone and makes them more likely to make poorer decisions against you.
There is a lot that goes into this including a fair bit of acting/paying attention to detail. You're bombing/overbetting the pot? Don't neatly stack 100 in chips into 4 or 5 even stacks. Grab a stack with more or less 20 chips (yes more or less, you don't have to precisely bet 100, betting 110 or 90 accomplishes more or less the same thing while building your image. You still have to know that it isn't 150 so that the math isn't off by too much) and slam them on the felt with authority. Challenge their ego. Challenge their manhood. Challenge them to play back at you. Turn the nits into folding stations and everyone else into calling stations. Push them off the game they want to play.
It's easier said than done. It also requires excellent reads of not only hand ranges but also the psychological make up (both long-term and current) of your opponent. It also doesn't happen often.
^ you win the thread.
Especially in nitty 2018. They just aren't calling 3 barrels deep stacked without a value hand that beats an overpair. Those kind of stations have gone broke so badly, they don't even play $60 live MTTs anymore -- they get their gamble hit in the pits now.
LAG and adjusting post-flop to who continues after a cbet is the way to exploit modern live NL200 imo. With smaller bet sizes OTF -- since the FoF TAGfish are just as scared of 25%-30% pot especially if Axy/Kxy rainbow.
The trick is, getting to the flop HU or 3way... sometimes huge 3xPot PFR isn't enough, for a lot of villains if they limp they are calling to hit the flop, even up to 30% effective (!)