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Old 09-11-2007, 10:35 AM
mvdgaag mvdgaag is offline
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Default Re: Asking LAGs for help....

Note that in a game where your opponents will float a lot or test you a lot it will be hard to steal and we are better off playing to make a hand instead of playing to steal. SuperSystem's strategy doesn't work well in these games. Luckily these games allow more value from our big hands so we should play for big pots.

If you find your opponents play a fit/fold game on the flop it's very profitable to raise any hand and cbet to steal, since they'll miss most of the time... Of course if we raise every hand our opponents would catch up quickly and destroy us after the flop. So we have to make a selection of hands that allow us to steal more than with our normal tight range, but still make it hard for our opponents post flop, because they should fear we have a hand that will break them at all time.

If you have to choose from all the hands you don't already raise and cbet for value, then SC's, small pairs and suited aces are the best candidates, since they make big hands and are easy to release if they don't hit.

All in all:

- Opponents give up easilly: go for small pots, raise more preflop, steal more...
- Opponents do not believe you and like to stick around postflop: go for big pots, raise/play less hands preflop and get maximum value out of them when you do.
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