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Originally Posted by TAOxEaglex
This OP is going to do alot of damage, not necessarily in a good way.
youre kidding me??
maybe youre right? (NOT)
ever hear the saying? :
never give a gun to a duck???
i think it applies here.
however, the problem isnt with the gun,
its the duck
Riverman wins.
i'd say that of all the ppl i play with (excluding some shots at 5/10), i run into about a handful in total of what i would call dangerous players. this is out of a pool of prolly 500 players or more? they are a tiny tiny minority? almost unicorns. a real card player is actually a very rare thing.
they go beyond making good decisions.
several guys that come to mind are not actually pros in that they have great jobs, and great income outside of poker, but still love and study the game, and excel just like a pro putting in big hours on it.
actually what make them even more dangerous than a pro is that they dont care about the $ as much.
its truly a game to them. there are some other guys ive heard of by name, or play bigger
i avoid sitting at their table, and try to make friends with them, and talk poker when i see them around.
im not saying that you should try to play like they do as a long term goal, even.
im saying that you should be aware of LAG play and learn it from the inside , firstly to come up with a defense for it;
and also to just know what direction is the natural one for the progression of your learning and skill set.
I played horrible LAG when i discovered it (used to play 2/3 chip dumping game at the old dirty Cal Grand
prolly @6+ years ago, and you could get away with it so much more back then. (the skill level there now is prolly still 10 years behind, but the rake sucks ass)
The stacks would get really deep late night sometimes, so you were correctly playing a lot of hands vs. passive doubting stations. i was over confident and tried crazy plays that sometimes worked. plays i wouldnt consider now,
even though i sucked at it, (LAG) i got a pass cuz the field was so weak.
i remember only afterwards actually starting to recognize what a good LAG was doing when id run into one.
before, what i would have been baffled by before started to make sense.
a unknown might sit down, and after 2 hands, you can see that hes a LAG, when it may not be obv to anyone else. especially if you play his style better than he does.
If you want to be a successful TAG, and youre comfortable with that style as it suits your personality and goals, you still want to be adept at all the styles, esp the most profitable ones, i would think?
you think even actionDan H, the biggest TAG cant play the hell out of LAG style if he wants to because its appropriate at the situation???
Even if you dont need a tool right this minute, you still need to have it in your tool belt.
Last edited by stampler; 02-20-2012 at 07:40 PM.