Reading hands

[ewashingtons]

ok so now i'm thinking it is just a question of style.
Sure, you could play tight all night, in which case you're smart thinking opponents would presumably pick up on this and give you credit for a hand whenever you bet or raise. If they do this they will rarely if ever pay you off on your big hands but you will probably win the vast majority of pots that you decide to play.
True, this style will allow you to also raise occasionally with a weaker hand and win the pot because everyone thinks you have a stonger hand than you actually have. If you really are a tight player, however, you will probably only pull this move off two or three times a session.
What you're saying is that you want you're opponents to put you on a small range of cards every time you're in a pot and be correct most of the time.

i don't think this is how i would ideally play. i want to get paid off on my big hands and i think that if i can get my opponents to be really clueless about what i'm holding every time i'm in a pot i would argue that that's a good thing. thoughts?