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Originally Posted by Feldheimer1
Can I ask how you're finding that adaption?
I play on PS, micro stakes (6max NL5 and NL10). I may not be the one to give you the most useful advices on this topic since there are more competent players here, but I'll gladly share my experiences and thoughts about it.
I started playing cash with the standard TAG style a year ago. Then this idea came to my mind, that if today's environment is so tough and every beginner is "told" to play a TAG style, doing the same would make it much tougher. I've read posts from respected posters about LAG style and as far as I know there's consensus about the profitability of playing loose-aggressively.
I think being a LAG can be highly profitable at low limits, but I have to mention that it is not a style to mass-multitable with. You get involved in more pots and due to your wider preflop range, you face more difficult postflop decisions.
I assume that the higher level you go, the harder it is to maintain the profitability of this style, because people play closer to GTO, though I can be wrong at this point.
Now for your other questions: I still consider myself a beginner, thus, swings do not affect me that much, since I know I have a ton of leaks to plug. Apart from this, I could imagine playing LAG poker for a living can be nerve-racking.
This is only my opinion, others may add theirs: I think at the small and probably medium stakes, LAG style can be way more profitable even in the long run in terms of bb/100. Now, as I already mentioned, you might make more profit playing tighter on more tables, but for sure there's much more possibility to exploit your opponents if you play a decent LAG style. And at these limits, an exploitative style is way more useful than trying to play balanced GTO.
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Do you try to utilize a lag approach only when there are nits/tags or more broadly?
I shift to a tighter approach when I play with other LAGs (they are mostly maniacs at NL10), because the board can quickly become a minefield of raising and re-raising. But since weaker players tend to play passively and the average regs all play a quite similar TAG style (from the nitty 15/10 end up to around 25/20), it's not too often I end up playing against decent LAG players.
I want to keep playing loose-aggressively as long as I can, my understanding of the game improves faster thanks to closer postflop decisions and, honestly, it feels way more fun to me. I did tighten up my game a bit since February. I played 38/22, but that was definitely out of the line if you think of any long term profitability. I've cut back from vpip and popped up my pfr a bit, now it's around 33/26, which I guess is a somewhat sustainable style. Who knows, time will decide .)