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Originally Posted by javi
No, I'm advocating we loosen up a little yet still play tighter than the fish, so we can be in more pots with them. As long as our range is better than the fish's then it's fine.
i agree with your line of thinking but disagree with your examples.
theres no reason to 3bet 76s when we no we have no fold equity. if we hit the flop hard and so does the villain, theyre giving us their stack anyway. why should we reduce our implied odds by 3betting that hand?
we need to be playing more hands and keeping our implied odds as large as possible. raising speculative hands does us no good when we have little fold equity. this is especially true when no matter what, we're getting our opponents stack when we hit our hand hard because they don't understand bet sizing. we can over bet the pot and they'll never fold draws or TPWK.
so when we have weak hands like J9s, QTo, K9o, and 87s in position facing a raise + multiple callers or facing a bunch of limpers, its better to just call, play position, look to hit our hand, and go for value.
the overall style, however, shouldn't be defined as TAG or LAG or whatever. we should be playing our table and playing our opponents. of course, most of the time, it will be LAG. we'll be looking to play as many pots as possible with high implied odds against weaker players who will stack off with weak relative value hands. however, there are certainly situations when we will need to play TAG. if the fish who are limping and stacking off with bad hands are all very shallow, playing LAG is a great way to go broke.
most of the time, you'll be at tables where some players are shallow, some are deep, some are nits, some are whales, some are solid, some are horrible, etc etc etc and you'll have to adjust your style of play every single hand. sometimes it'll be profitable to play J9o from middle position because the limpers in front of you all have deep stacks and are stacking off with top pair. other hands you might have to fold 66 or T9s because a player with an $80 stack just raised to $15. the number of situations that you'll run into are infinite. you cannot classify your play as TAG or LAG or go into any game, table, or hand telling yourself that you're going to play a certain way.
the way to crush not just 1/2 but any level is to adjust your game to best exploit the action in front of you on a hand by hand basis.