Re: How come whenever I go to a live casino it\'s the LAGs who win?
 

Because playing LAG is teh sexy and playing TAG is teh gay

Re: How come whenever I go to a live casino it\'s the LAGs who win?
 

bad layers generally think good players are too loose and getting lucky a lot.

Re: How come whenever I go to a live casino it\'s the LAGs who win?
 

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bad layers generally think good players are too loose and getting lucky a lot.

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I know for me that I start to curse the people who are playing 50% or more of their hands and beating me with crap starting hands. Then what happens I start to tilt and lose any judgement that I may have. Not that I have that must judgement.

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Interesting, i always tried to explain this to my friends who play -ev games in casinos but never knew the right term.

Re: How come whenever I go to a live casino it\'s the LAGs who win?
 

as mentioned before, the winning LAG players (long term) appear to be crazy and wild, but they generally tighten up considerably post flop. If one of their rag hands doesn't connect, they get out cheap for their PF raise/call. If it does hit, they bust the overplayed overpairs. also, there are a lot more losing LAG players than winning ones, so take it with a grain of salt when someone drags a monster pot with 92o.

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I used to play a very tight aggressive game at limit hold'em. As I got better, I opened up my game. I play more pots, bluff some, get caught some, but get paid off much more then I bluff. But there are 2 answers to your question.

If you are playing low limit live, the biggest stack is probably a really loose player who is hot. The next day, that is the case again, but it is rarely the same person. The player above who stated that slow and steady usually wins the race. But when you get up to middle limit and above like I am in, image does mean something, and you can capitalize on that.

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But most of the time I go to a live casino, it isn't the by-the-book "tight aggressive" players who win. It's always someone who is playing some crazy hole cards too far and wins big; or someone who is setting up a worse fish by making terrible plays all night.

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What you are not seeing is htat tese LAGs have rebought multiple times, while you're still grinding a profit from your first buy in.

They rebuy and rebuy, and when they hit a rush, they look like the WSOP champ of the world - but it cost them A LOT to get there, and they are rarely breaking even.

Meanwhile, playing TAG, you're grinding out a profit, that exceeds the LAGs in the long term, has lower variance, and is something you can live on.

AB

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the biggest stack is probably a really loose player who is hot. The next day, that is the case again, but it is rarely the same person.

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