ok, i won't be nice here.
i'm honestly tired of seeing these type of posts.
i know poker is all about style, so your "style" could as well just be as affective as any other style.
but seriously, if that's the way you are going to play, u have to know how to back up your thoughts with valid reasoning that's not flawed.
just saying it has worked in your past 10 sngs doesn't mean anything.
i could have beaten aces with 53o 10 times in a row and that still won't mean anything, Aces are still ahead.
likewise, you have to rethink why your style is working.
as for some flaws that i might point out.
1. you are probably playing lower limits which is flooded with loose-weak players.
ie Fishes.
characteristics of fishes being they are rather passive, don't bet but call more. hence there will be less aggression in the game. to counter that you should be the one playing tight/aggressive. but your so called "loose aggressive" (reason for quotation marks will follow later) isn't really aggression, you are just giving fishes the right odds to make the call, making their usual wrong play, the right play.
ok someone else also replied on this thread, who tried the strategy and said that the downside to the strategy is bad beats.....
uh... please do go back, search the forum for the thread about defining what "proper" bad beat is. i should have made one before under the screenname nxtyear. it's not bad beat when you are giving them odds to chase their draws.
of the pot is 60 and you bet 10 into the pot, them calling with their mid pair against your top pair is the right play, as they'd usually have 5 outs to beat your han. not to mention straight and flush draws make it an obviously right play to call.
2. "Loose Aggressive", loose aggressive is knowing how to play small pots properly. and applying their aggression image in big pots with big hands.
they would take stab at small pots, steal, or give up. but they would do the same with big pots with big hands, using their loose aggressive image to disguise the strenght of their hand.
now i know you are thinking that you are doing the same thing..
BUT, min betting into pots isn't going to build any big pot, sooner or later you WILL have to make a big bet if you want to build up the pot, and that just gives it away. other opponents will be able to know EXACTLY when you have a big hand cuz you are trying to build a big pot. of couse if you can continue bettng small and other's won't realize you have a big hand, but you didn't get any chips from the hand either. so there's no point.
3. playing tighter later on. Honestly, that's the worst thing i've heard. I know poker's all situational play and you have to know when to change gears and play tighter, and looser etc. but having a GENERAL strategy if playing tighter as the blinds get up is just utter sh*te.
someone mentioned it before but i'll say it again, if you don't catch any big hands, your stack isn't going to get any bigger now.
the blinds will get higher, in proportion to your stack, your M will get lower.
at this point you have to try and steal pots to stay above from the blinds cutting you down. waiting for a big hand is the WORST thing to do, and your just going to end up very short stack by the time you DO get a big hand, and even if you double up your stack will still be short and the circle goes on.
constant aggression and loosening up your play is the only way you'll be able to maintain your chip stack by making abit of steals etc, so that when you DO pick up a good hand, you will double up even bigger, + you've been stealing a few so your strong hand's strength WILL be disguised.
i don't care if your so called strategy works so well in the short run.
if your gonna be aggressive, learn how to be aggressive properly  |