How to play loose

[Rickyroodido]

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I agree that it's an auto-open. I was more looking for some general thoughts on how people find spots to make chips early. Playing TAG definitely doesn't get it done.

Everett

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Yea especially on Party since you only get 1000.

When I want to accumulate chips by laggy play I try to get myself in situations were I have many ways to win pots.
-Its crucial to have the initativ so raise/reraise preflop and get it headsup. This will help you to represent hands which you could have as a raiser, and win pots.
-Bluff; win without a hand!
-Semibluff; bet the turn if your flushdraw didnt get there, if your opponent seems weak.

[nath]

I might raise the flop and shut down to further action, barring really good cards (a 9, another ace, runner straight, etc.)
Part of playing loose early to accumulate chips also invovles playing aggressively. If villain is going to bet his hand this weakly on a drawy flop, let him know you have a hand and will fight for this pot.

(To be honest, my strategy for accumulating on Party usually involves shoving AK and TT+ preflop in the first 3 rounds. Worse hands call all the time.)

[zoobird]

Not a comment on this hand in particular, but my advice could be summed up as 'find fish, fry fish'. All the other situational advice people are giving is great, but nothing is going to help you more than getting into pots with bad players. I realize that there are a lot less of those at the level you're playing than where I'm playing ($1), but there are still going to be some people who fold to any bet if the flop misses them, limp and then call a raise with weak hands, make tiny cbets that allow you to call with any drawing hands, and consistently make all sorts of other easily identifiable mistake. Find these people, and find ways to get into pots against them.

[rockin]

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If you're not going to open raise with A9s with your position you might as well have a nine year old play for
you and alert you whenever you get pocket Aces or Kings.


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this is very contradictory

[allenciox]

I am going to disagree with everyone else here. With your A9s with four players left to act, did you know that there is a 23.4% probability that one of those four players has you dominated (AA-99,AK-AT)? I absolutely HATE raising here with such small blinds. I can see a limp to try for the flush, but you cannot be confident that flopping an ace is very good for you. If your raise gets called in late position you could easily be dominated, and you have built a sizable pot without knowing where you are at.

If I play this, (and I might not since drawing hands are so difficult to play OOP), I would just limp. Raising is just asking for trouble.

[Ansky]

If you were replaced by me in this hand, the exact same betting scheme would have occured.

That's my way of saying I'd have played the same way.

[A_PLUS]

PF: I think limping and raising are close here. limping allows you to win bigger pots, raising allows you to win more pots.

I will usually raise this flop bet, unless I am ready to commit myself to the hand (which I'm not here). The reason being that I may have the best hand, the odds of this getting to showdown without another significant bet are slim.

What I'm trying to say is, I am not convinced we are behind on the turn. Does AK really make that wierd 55 chip bet on the flop? Yeah, maybe, but it might be TT as well. The fact that he didnt get raised on the flop makes him think he might be good, and he comes to life on the turn. I realize that we are behind a good bit here, but I think raising to 200-250 and folding to a reraise leads to a better result than calling 55 and folding. The one thing that 55 chip bet wasn't designed to do was to blow everyone out of the pot. You can't expect that we are getting to showdown for nothing, so why bother even calling?

[bowski44]

You think 5% of ur stack is too much to try and get implied odds for stacking him?

[Ansky]

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Fold to his reraise.

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