10 thoughts on “Cash Game: Tight Aggressive To Loose Aggressive Poker Strategy”

1. Hi guys. This is the hand that i submitted. When i saw my hand i told myself we Are going To fire away unless an Ace or King hit the board (If both hit Then i would continue). In an earlier hand, i showed up with a set of 5's that i flopped. I was also not limping. If i played, i would raise 3x blind. If i missed the flop i either checked or folded To a bet. I did try a c-bet here And there. For me To go aggro must have thrown off the table (And the passive lady in particular). I'm not sure If table image played a roll here. I'm pretty good at hand reading, yet i was off here. I figured i was behind And the only chance To win was To make her fold her hand. I did not expect 10's since she limped. I guess a good LAG would give up after the opponent showed resistance…

2. Very strange hand…. Next.

3. You got lucky against a not so good player, everything she did was bad from limping, check calling, and folding the turn. Against any decent player even if the action was the same you would of lost your stack as they would be calling the turn nearly around 90% of the time

4. I'm going to do something that I didn't really want to do but the commentary doesn't jibe with my experience. I'll elaborate. The stack sizes are pretty bad for LAG play but attacking the deeper stacks in position and after most of the smaller stacks have folded makes is ok. The reads that is missing is knowing whether or not both opponents are making folding mistakes. If they are again, this is a good spot but in general passive players are calling stations, which makes this the opposite. Now forget Hero's cards. He can have any two here on the line he chose. The betting line is reraise, 1/2 pot c-bet to iso/set up shove… shove. This betting line reverse reads strong. In 1/2 it's rare that a villain won''t marry and over pair and will fold to a shove but if you are playing someone capable of thinking at this level and reading this exactly this way. Great! This is a good LAG line in the right spot at the right time. In general though, better players will not allow this line holding TT and getting folds based on reads is rare.

5. Why aren't you playing with a 100bb+ stack size? I assume you're a good player so why wouldn't you play with a stack that lets you win the most amount of money even though everyone is short? (someone's gotta double up sometime). As tomohawk pointed out, this is a very bad stack size to decide to go for a LAG approach because SPR makes it pretty tough to draw or to pt pressure on the other person. LAG play depends a lot on reads on other players because you're basically being a dick to the other players and you have to know who is the most profitable person to be an asshole to. You can't put pressure on a fish or a calling station because they don't feel that pressure since they are focused only on their hole cards so if this lady fits into one of this categories then you shouldn't be pulling a play like this on her.

6. I'm not sure why you're confused by the flop action. Abc could easily have been on a draw with 2 broadway cards, and would have folded to any bet when he missed because that's what a weaker abc player does. Passive villain is really passive and played TT horribly, but was willing to go along with a c-bet because, as you noted, she likes to chase. Your turn shove convinced her she was no good because she undervalued her hand (per the UTG limp) and overvalued yours. She was probably thinking she needed to hit another T to be good.

   You're up against 1-level thinkers here, which is to be expected in such a small game. Had villain played this passively in a strategic way she would have seen that her hand strength was severely under-repped and might have called you because she looked so weak you could have been doing this with a very wide range. But she's not considering what's in your head, only what's in hers.

7. very common for ppl to limp with pockets. especially in those stakes. no idea why you are confused. the flop is totally dry. when she calls your raise pre then calls flop. you know she isn't floating to bluff. she either has a duece. a 6. or an overpair. with her limp highly unlikely a duece. guess you could put her or a6 suited. but turn changes nothing. be careful with that play. totally unprofitable long term. best advice is see poker as a story. then put it together

8. let me break down what is tight and and what is loose, Tight over here = narrow range maybe 15% of your hand , while loose means wide range = 20% or more for the range. when you play tight or you have a tight image unlikely for you to have a 2 in your range, while if your image is loose you can have any two card or possible 2 3 is in your range. so at this point is how villain see you , if he see you as loose he worry you have any 2 , 45 and over pair , while if villain see you as tight she worry you have any over pair . villain is holding a marginal hand that wanted to go to the show down cheap. when you keep showing aggression you are repping you are strong and she buy into your story.

9. What's the max buy here? There's little room to play any genre of NL poker because, as you've observed, aggressive bets are hard to carry over to the river.

   The villain heard "all-in" rather than "2nd barrel" and psyched herself out (she deserves to lose over it), but if you both had (proper) ~$200 stacks, you're getting check-called to showdown in most cases unless an ace hits the river.

10. If you were playing 100bbs+ deep, you could go for a triple barrel and give her a hard time calling down, but with these stacks and that turn card, you should expect to get called 90% of the time, not a good bluff at all. Checking the turn and betting on any J,Q,K or A is a better play. Side note, raise to 10-16 pre, raising to 8 has 0 fold equity, and makes it harder for you to rep a really strong hand. Playing as big pots as possible in position is the way to play aggresive

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