[RyanCMU]

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well written RyanCMU...

let's discuss the playign styles of some of the better NL 100 players then - (and it's funny how we assciate) or at least a lot on here....better being those that play more LAG than the other 'regs'.

- bottomset:
- what makes him a feared opponent?
- what does he do that makes you sqirm or pound the table?
- what makes him difficult to play?
- do you avoid him OOP, why? do you avoid him IN position? why?
- what are some other questions we can ask?

Drballgame (who is he on 2+2? by the way?)
AChen
BigLivesOn

same questions, what makes them difficult,etc. feel free to add names and what makes them 'better' than your regular 'reg'

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W/o giving away to much about my thoguhts about a lot of those players mentioned. Since I still play frequently with all of them...

-AGGRESSION
-Hand reading
-recognizing situations

They are aggressive in spots where they need to be.

Good players also hand read very well, and use their superior hand reading skill to put their weaker worse opponents to tough decisions and also are able then to extract more value with their marginal hands.

They don't just do things because they are told to do them or because they heard you should 3bet more. Good players are able to recognize situations where you should be 3betting light, firing multiple barrels, valuetowning middle pair.

A lot of players you mentioned also, play a slightly more Laggy game compared to other TAGs at our levels. This does two things for them.

(1) It allows them to believably be able to represent a wide range of hands post flop. Which in turn allows them to bluff more effectively and also extract more value from thier marginal hands.

Example - "Ahh bottomset defiantly would 3bet me w/ a suited connector and this flop of 567 hits him pretty hard" Conversely, "He is always 3betting me light, he doesn't have anything here" and you stack off w/ a marginal hand.

(2) You know so little about thier reasonably wide range, however, they know so much about your narrow range. Someone who is very actice and agressive its very hard to put them on an accurate range of hands, especially for a novice or bad TAG regular at NL100, especially the ones playing shitons of tables. However, its very easy for them to put you on a range of hands and then just abuse you.

Starting to get the point?