How to go from weak tight to tight aggresive?

[xltros]

I think my play is generally weak tight, but I'm not sure how to go to the next level. Just looking for any sop's that would be defining moves between the two. Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks

[Clarkmeister]

Well, you are already tight, so its easy. Go from thinking your opponents always have the nuts, to thinking they never have anything at all.

[Mike Gallo]

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Well, you are already tight, so its easy. Go from thinking your opponents always have the nuts, to thinking they never have anything at all.

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[xltros]

bump, anyone got a few more elaborate comments?

[Clarkmeister]

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bump, anyone got a few more elaborate comments?

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Mine may sound like a smartass remark, but its really how to go about things.

[Dynasty]

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bump, anyone got a few more elaborate comments?

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When you're in a spot where you think it's close between a bet and a check, always bet. When it's close between a raise and a call, always raise. Soon, you'll realize that usually it isn't as close a situation as you used to think.

[xltros]

whens the best time to play a tight aggresive game, or when is it not advised? also when do you want to start getting "tricky" and how do you do it as a tight aggresive player.
thanks again.

[Gabe]

My advice would be to cut out Clarmeister's and Dynasty's replies and tape them to your refrigerator.

[bisonbison]

My advice would be to cut out Clarmeister's and Dynasty's replies and tape them to your refrigerator.

But cut them out with a gun. Now that's aggressive.

[Dynasty]

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whens the best time to play a tight aggresive game, or when is it not advised? also when do you want to start getting "tricky" and how do you do it as a tight aggresive player.
thanks again.

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You should always be playing tight-aggressive. Worry about the tricky stuff much later.

[RydenStoompala]

There are already good replies on this post. I just want to affirm clarkmeister's recommendation to stay tight, turn off the notion that everyone playing you is betting the nuts, and hit the gas. You are going to have to not only adopt, but love, larger fluctuations in the stack. When there's a reference to earning 1-2 big bets/hour, it's a great "long-term" earn rate. At any given moment, as a tight-agressive player, you can be up or stuck a lot of bets. Imagine poker as a firefighter's job...long periods of boredom punctuated by brief moments of terror.

[UTGunner]

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whens the best time to play a tight aggresive game, or when is it not advised? also when do you want to start getting "tricky" and how do you do it as a tight aggresive player.
thanks again.

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Read this essay from 2+2's essays page:
The Different Stages in a Player's Life
by Ray Zee

[Schmed]

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Imagine poker as a firefighter's job...long periods of boredom punctuated by brief moments of terror.

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That is a great quote...... /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Analyst]

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Imagine poker as a firefighter's job...long periods of boredom punctuated by brief moments of terror.

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Tight aggressive is vastly preferable to being weak-tight, where every moment, every hand and every decision is filled with terror.

[Analyst]

As you implement some of the excellent advice in this thread, and begin raising rather than calling, 3-betting rather than folding, check-raising rather than betting out, etc., the tricky part will become finding the right balance. When you find these moves working, it's easy to become overly aggressive after a while; hey, 3-betting is fun! That's the stage I am in right now (and it's depressingly easy to bleed off chips this way), and figuring out when and how to step back the right amount becomes the next challenge.

[AzzaDazza]

And frame Elysium's!!

[Ulysses]

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Imagine poker as a firefighter's job...long periods of boredom punctuated by brief moments of terror.

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Really, how many moments in limit poker are ever all that terrifying? /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[bigpooch]

He must have been thinking NL HE!