who plays a lag style?

greatwhite · #1 04-11-2006, 02:22 PM

If so how has this worked for you. Daniel Negreanu told me that he plays like 95% of his hands and usually comes in with a preflop raise. I've also heard that Ivey has a similar approach.

piiop · #2 04-11-2006, 02:26 PM

Are you sure they weren't talking about when they donk around at low limits?

Chimichonga · #3 04-11-2006, 02:32 PM

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Are you sure they weren't talking about when they donk around at low limits?

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I'm pretty sure they were. The post he is refering to is over at FCP, in which DN was talking about play at a 2-4 table. It is unclear, to me at least, whether or not he was refering to limit or PL play.

No matter how good the game is, I seriously doubt playing 95% of your hands can be a long-term winning strategy above penny stakes.

greatwhite · #4 04-11-2006, 02:36 PM

A direct quote from Daniel:

"Well, Ivey kind of taught me how to play that game a while back and I would say I play about the same number of hands.

Online, playing $2-$4 I've routinely played 95% of the hands, raising most, and am way, way, ahead of the game."

acesover8s · #5 04-11-2006, 02:45 PM

I experimented a few years ago with playing 100% of my hands with a few caveats, such as I didn't have to call a preflop raise if it was more than 5% of our effective stacks.

In the short sample I played, I managed to eke out a small profit. When I made the same experiment at NLHE I got murdered.

Chimichonga · #6 04-11-2006, 02:46 PM

Over how many hands did the experiment last? Just out of curiousity...

piiop · #7 04-11-2006, 02:51 PM

And what limit were you playing?

greatwhite · #8 04-11-2006, 02:51 PM

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I experimented a few years ago with playing 100% of my hands with a few caveats, such as I didn't have to call a preflop raise if it was more than 5% of our effective stacks.

In the short sample I played, I managed to eke out a small profit. When I made the same experiment at NLHE I got murdered.

[/ QUOTE ]I can't imagine this working in NLHE. Dominating hands are far less common in PLO as they are in NLHE.

Kiros · #9 04-12-2006, 12:27 AM

I've logged about 1k hands in the last week or so and i've had close to a 50% VIP and have been at about 30bb/100...I know it's a VERY small sample size, but its worked at the low levels.

greatwhite · #10 04-12-2006, 08:02 AM

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Are you sure they weren't talking about when they donk around at low limits?

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I'm pretty sure they were. The post he is refering to is over at FCP, in which DN was talking about play at a 2-4 table. It is unclear, to me at least, whether or not he was refering to limit or PL play.

No matter how good the game is, I seriously doubt playing 95% of your hands can be a long-term winning strategy above penny stakes.

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Maybe people just love to give Daniel money there. I don't see how anyone can profit from playing 95% of their hands. I'm sure he's talking about pot limit omaha, because I specifically asked him about pot limit omaha and he mentioned that Ivey taught him the game.