[Isura]

slapjack,

I think the key against a preflop lag is to get lots of money in PREFLOP. A lot of players have it backwards: they loosen up and call a lot preflop with speculative hands, hoping to bust the lag. But this is playing right into his hands, because a good lag is not going to payoff without good hands, it is is hard for the non-aggressor to win the pot postflop without a good hand. I don't think that much about implied odds against a lag. My hand selection is more based on my chances of not making a mistake when I have marginally the best hand, or when I have a slightly worst hand but I can win the pot with aggression. For example, 45/25 decent lag opens in MP, you have 88 on the button. I will call sometimes, but I will also reraise the pot a good percentage of the time. If you are not willing to go to war sometimes with one of best hands in holdem, then a good lag is just going to grind away at your stack and never pay you off when you hit big.