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Old 08-03-2005, 08:30 PM
britspin britspin is offline
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Default keeping a Lag Luckbox at the table - tips?

Tonight I was playing an incredibly LAG luckbox in $1/2 limit HE online.

He was doing wonderfully. He has made baby straights, wild FHs, wierd 2 pairs. The works. He went from a $30 buy in to $160 in about an hour. What's more, he was tilting the table. People were amking looser calls, pots were getting bigger.

His rush was having another unusual effect. To begin with he only called preflop and raised every unraised flap. After the rush he was raising 2/3rds of preflop hands.

Naturally i wanted him to stay right where he was, yet shortly after hitting $175 he had the good sense to walk away.

The table wasn't abusive to him, but neither was it a pleasant chatty enviroment. People weren't chatting in the text, there was no sense of spirit or fun in the room. Occassionally we'd get a "ffs"- no real aggro, just the dispiriting feeling of a losing table.

Reading Dr Schoonmakers book, it strikes me that LAGs are more likely to enjoy screen banter, a chatty table, jokes and fun. If I wanted him to stay at the table, should I have been making an effort to keep him amused? Has anyone done this? Any tips? I'd have been happy to make a couple of bad plays, or show hilariously bad bluffs, of just act the fool- anything to make the table fun- if it was likely to have an impact on him wanting to stay there. Obviously this is eaier to do in real life, but any chance of it making an appreciable difference online?

I had perfect position on him, sitting one to the left. I was very sad when he left. it totally changed the table, and the game became normal- and with much less potential profit.
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