Why do I still do stuff like this?

[gaming_mouse]

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Sure there is some chance you have the best hand but your OOP and its going to be expensive to find out and given all that sometimes you just have to concede these tiny pots instead of trying to fight every battle. They will make it expensive for you to be sure.


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hey donkey,

against aggressive players, don't you worry that you'll get runover if you always fold here. i agree that it seems best, but then again it seem exploitable.

[DeathDonkey]

No because those same aggressive players will pay me off or go off for many bets when I do flop monsters, or at least pairs. The reason they are bad is because they don't adjust. The good thinking LAG who steals small pot after small pot but can quickly give up on his hand when I do flop well is the scarier kind who you have to win some battles against - the garden variety LAG can best be beat with patience.

-DeathDonkey

[Michael Davis]

"No because those same aggressive players will pay me off or go off for many bets when I do flop monsters, or at least pairs. The reason they are bad is because they don't adjust. The good thinking LAG who steals small pot after small pot but can quickly give up on his hand when I do flop well is the scarier kind who you have to win some battles against - the garden variety LAG can best be beat with patience."

I don't agree. The garden variety LAG will run you over in a shorthanded game if you are too patient. Beating the LAG often requires weak calldowns and sometimes drastic resteal efforts, otherwise he's going to bet you out of too many pots. At best a tight TAG is evening things up by getting extra bets in when the LAG can't fold, but the LAG makes up for this if he's taking down pots left and right because the TAG is playing fit or fold. If the LAG is betting too often with weak hands, is a better strategy for beating him to raise all the time or to fold more?

-Michael