Just to be clear:
I prefer playing deep stacked. I play nut draws aggressively in good spots. I'll bluff when it's likely to work. I'll bet a straight draw and rep the flush on the turn. I'll triple barrel a weak/tight player on the right runout. I'm very aware of table dynamics and will move seats/tables when appropriate. I don't have a predominate style, rather my style is fluid and determined by table conditions including my stack.
I'm not saying marginal hands are any hand where I don't have the nuts
Fat value might be 2nd pair vs a bluffy maniac, air IP vs disinterested weak/tight as much as an overpair flatted headsup vs a loose aggro type who over values top pair.
In my opinion avoiding marginal spots is not necessarily weak tight. What I mean by it is playing tighter (particularly OOP) preflop and just folding the flop when the overall situation looks marginal.
For example the other day I iso raised AJs 100bb deep IP and 2 limpers called. Flop was AsTx8s two-tone (no FD for me). Both villains were capable of limp calling AQ and even AK/TT (very limpy game). Flop action was: UTG donks pot and MP tank calls.
Now I really can't possibly put an accurate % on my equity here because I haven't got a huge read on UTG other than he is moderately tight and quite passive and I don't entirely know what MP tanking means. However my gut tells me it is marginal because I have 92bb behind and I guess they are all going in before the end of the hand if I continue the flop and, in my experience, my AJ will not be good an obvious majority of the time. So I just folded. Turn is a blank, UTG shoves, MP tank folds and shows an Ace. UTG looks annoyed.
I guess what I mean when I say marginal is not this clear mathematical 55% equity. What it is is that I think I am flipping but I have tons behind and my read is weak so I could easily be wrong about being 50:50. I.e I'm not going out of my way to win small pots by putting a large stack on the line but when the pot is bigger I'll go the other way and err on the side of continuing. It's as much a way of trying to avoid big mistakes as to avoid big swings.
Big mistakes in big pots = big swings, low win rate and longer downswings due to low win rate..
Small mistakes in small pots = small impact on winrate but better than the alternative above.
Last edited by Ragequit99; 10-06-2016 at 04:39 AM.