Re: Skilled LAG play?
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Maybe I'm just suffering from that common poker players delusion that the LAGS have it all and TAG play is old news.
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I've been wondering the same thing lately.
Then I watched my 2003 WSOP DVD again. At the final two tables, there were about an equal number of TAG players (if not more) vs. LAGs. You don't see or hear about them much from the announcers because they don't make wild, dramatic moves.
Same deal in live poker. Who are you going to remember longer: the guy quietly taking down an occational medium pot, or the guy that is constantly bluffing and playing junk hands?
Plus, the personality of most LAGs is also typically more outgoing and jovial than that of the typical TAG player (think Scotty Nguyen versus Dan Harrington).
(Of course, at this level the game, players are constantly shifting gears, so its hard to really catagorize any top player accurately; I'm using these guys as examples because they seem to epitomize the archetypes.)
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