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Aggressive players are the ones who succeed often to get in advanced positions in tournaments and automatically they earn money. They have a good tactic and i try but i can not succeed as they do. My disadvantage is that: players are calling many hands and i raise, but they still pay and in final i lose more hands. These aggressive players win more hands and me not. This style is very bad for me.
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Yes and no, poker game prized the aggression, and all the good players have to be aggressive in some instance of the game, that is true. But not all of the LAG are good players. They don´t have a risk-averse so they enter in too many traps if you simulate that you have some weakness with a premium hand. The poker game prized the patient too
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They are also lucky because i lose many hands when i'm aggressive. My rivals have cards when i play aggressively and this players they have more luck because his opponents have no cards after flop. Is strange this thing and many times i preffer to fold and mty stack it does not grow.
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Yes that's thre trick to dealing with LAG, bait them into betting or reraising you when you have something good. Or just loosen up just a little yourself. We know they'll be playing sub par hands so you can play things you might not otherwise like A low kicker or suited connectors and try to get them. I also like to all in them first if I believe I have the better hand. Then there is no value to them trying to bluff you out, they can't it's in or out, and if they got crap they'll fold. If they do call with a something worse then they give you odds. if they suck out on the river, oh well, that's poker you got your chips in at the right time, it'll pay off more often then it does't
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Might be...but versus these extreme players I try to do what the saying says "against tightest people: push a lot and call very little; against looser people: Push very little and call a lot" Win a LAG being more LAG than him is a risk, don´t you think? I like to trap them with their own aggressively and making grow up the pot calling their bets (when I have the nuts) until a donk bet or 3bet in the river...a pleasure!
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For me it does not work in that way. I tried what you say but the truth is like many times these players manage to win the pot because they have a good luck. The number of duels is to the disadvantage for me. I will not try too often to fight with them. These players are very dangerous.
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That´s right, they are too dangerous, but you can´t avoid it. Much more if you play tournaments. In cash games, you can select a table without loose-aggressive player known, but in a tourney it´s impossible. And about the luck, you can´t do anything against luck. You play with it or without, you only have to pay attention to improve your playing
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I could improve my game with an illegal program that can not be detected. In this way i could to make money easier, but not too many and to get away without being caught. It also goes with a legal program which i can easily understand and to be very attentive to what i do. I joked about cheating because i could not play all my life in that room.
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CALICUL you make me interested by a while, I was thinking about which way you could send me that mysterious software. What a shame, I want it! But if I think it right, playing poker in that way might be very bored. It might seem like a make money machine, without any emotion. But I could used to it
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Posted by CALICUL: I hate many things with some poker players who have small pairs in hand 22, 33 etc... i raise with AK, AQ or AJ they pay. After the flop or turn raise more and more with A in flop they pay again and the river is set for them. What is the reason for which they do that? they know what cards are going to come on the table, wait for the set ? because it's grotesque what they do or they want to bluff around the river?
that is simply a chase it is pretty simular to hitting a gut-shot straight on the river i mean if you had the highest 3 of a kind all the way t the river and someone hits a gut shot and pushes all in 99.9% of the time you would think it was a bluff as you would be to bewildered to consider that they followed your bets all the way to the river with nothing.
i realize this is hard to comprehend until you actually take the risk yourself and hit it and make a huge pot from it, and it is a rear chase the gutshot straight but with no flush draws or any 3 of a kind higher than yours it will be the one to catch you off guard and pockets in general are pretty much the same especially if you hit a huge 2 pair on the flop and you are betting like an addicted gambler at a casino only to be all of a sudden reraised all in once that little 2 or 6 comes along and all you do is think that they have hit a 2 pair themselves not for a second thinking that they have trips can always send you into ruin particularly if you think its just a straight bluff.
when it comes to online poker you can not be sirprised by the dynamics and what better cards can just hit you out of no where as for me i always seemed to get rivered when nearing the final stages in the tournament where the blinds are around 6/12k and once ive commited 80% of my stack on the turn. that sort of makes me wonder sometimes too if they knew what cards were going to pop out especially when they have nothing at all and go all in on the flop and get runner runner straights or 2 pairs etc.
Of course, the use of illegal software to help playing poker is wrong ... and a life ban from poker rooms is an absolutely correct precaution against using such programs ... when I play poker without using any programs ... even legal ones ... since I play poker on sensations ... and for me it is not a living, but a hobby
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I'm not playing poker to live with this gambling game. Honestly, i could not live with the money earned from poker. Maybe if i play in a strong room like pokerstars but the thing is that: i do not play there than very rarely and in 888poker i would die of hunger with what money i win there.
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Well, I not. I´m trying to do my better effort to learn the poker theory (especially about SnGs) to become a regular player and make an alternative income by poker´s game. I do not see it as a hobby, I´m trying to see it like a funny work (that is funny only when you win!). I´m also thinking in try a live tournament, and I´m looking for local information
I would also like to play in a live tournament ... I played only online ... with real people I played only with friends .... of course it would be interesting to try to play in a live tournament with real players ..... to see their reaction at the table .... it would certainly be interesting
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I like to win money but with online poker is increasingly difficult. I do not want to play live poker because i was not passionate about it. The problem is online poker who loses players in every day. That's why it's harder to win. When many players entered in a tournament, you can create a stack easier but when there are few players it's hard to create something and to win.
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I have a dual feeling about to play a live tournament (I would not play cash poker in a live table). I would like to stay there and may see the famous "Tells" and the electricity of the environment, but I might have "scenic panic" to play In view of all. And the matter of understanding the croupier, touch the cheaps, see my cards...everything new!
Of course, playing online is much easier than playing live .... you can play at any time convenient for you ... if you want a game of morning, you want a day, if you want, you want a night, if you want night, then you have to follow the rules of the tournament ... .In Russia, poker is banned but you can play in Sochi ... probably I will sometime go there and play
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Why in this city you can play poker live and in the rest of Russia not? Sochi does not have the laws of Russia and is closer to Georgia, in this way adopted the laws from there? or looks like a lot with Macao which belongs to China where they are not playing but in Macao is allowed to play live poker.
Posted by CALICUL: Why in this city you can play poker live and in the rest of Russia not? Sochi does not have the laws of Russia and is closer to Georgia, in this way adopted the laws from there? or looks like a lot with Macao which belongs to China where they are not playing but in Macao is allowed to play live poker.
Russia has banned casinos and poker .... but there are several zones in which you can open a casino .... one of these zones is located in Sochi .... there are several more zones but Sochi is the most famous .... close to Europe and developed infrastructure .... so various tournaments are held there .... I hope someday to play there
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A short time ago, a World Championship of Poker was playing in Sochi. I remember that I claimed (I always am claimed! ) because the prizes of the satellites have a package that includes only $1250, or something like that, to passage and stay. Only the tickets to ship to Sochi from Argentina are more expensive than this amount!
