Adjustments for more aggressive preflop approach in live MTTs

[betgo]

I tend to play TAG in online tournaments unless the table is tight. In live mid buyin events, there is usually a large ante and fairly tight/scared play. I find the following adjustments are appropriate. Do others agree?

-- Make small steal raises and cbet. When in doubt, raise.

-- Be more willing to play hands. Limp behind in late position and call or overcall raises from the blinds and late position. You will have opertunities to pick up the pot postflop.

-- Postflop, be willing to make marginal semibluff pushes and stabs at the pot with nothing. Sometimes 2-barrel or bluff raise.

-- Be willing to raise or push at limpers in what would seem like marginal situations online.

-- Make resteal and squeeze play pushes in most situations where the oportunity is there, you don't have reads from the action or otherwise that someone is strong, and you have a playable hand.

-- With deep money, be willing to make loose reraises, either with hands like JJ or AQ or with suited connectors, high cards or whatever in the right situation.

-- With 3-12xBB pushbot loosely, due to the high antes and tight play. With the big ante, you can often push any two from late position. For 10xBB, you can push any pp, Axs, JTs, KJo, or A9o from any position. With a smaller stack or later position, you can be looser.

-- With less than 2xBB, look to call a raise and get HU with huge pot odds due to the ante.

[IWEARGOGGLES]

Raise ATC based on who is playing in the blinds. Holla Betgo.

[Mingdu]

What is the difference between live and online play?

I have never played live and it would help me to know the differences between live and online that cause us to make these adjustments

People fold more in live play... biggest different by far.

[Mingdu]

So they are scared ... and we need to adjust to take advantage of that ?

[JoEyPeNeLoPe]

i don't know if i agree with the fact that poeple fold more in live play postflop. They play a lot tighter preflop in the late stages so pushbotting liberally is good but people just don't like folding any piece of the flop in my experience.

I got a guy to fold bottom set on an uncoordinated, harmless flop. Maybe we just had different experiences.

[burningyen]

Live you can often get away with underbetting post-flop. Some players don't seem to have a clue how much is in the pot at any given time.

[Sherman]

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What is the difference between live and online play?

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People fold more in live play... biggest different by far.

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Gee. I thought the biggest difference was that you actually have to pick up your cards to look at them. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[ThePershore]

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Gee. I thought the biggest difference was that you actually have to pick up your cards to look at them. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Depends how tight they're playing, sometimes it's best not to look... [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]