Being A Bully

When you have a large chip stack it is wise not to sit back but to keep adding to your stack and go for the win. However how is this achieved? Is it just a matter of picking the spots were you sense weakness and put in a big raise or is it just a matter of " I have a lot of chips lets bet 3,000 with 7d 4s?

it is a matter of using your chips and playing the player .

Ask list about it.

What they are trying to say is use your reads. If you know that player A will fold to any reraise unless he holds the nuts. Reraise them.

I like to call it controlled agression. Most villains will not have a large enough stack to gamble with a marginal hand. Make every raise large enough that they will not be able to justify the pot odds unless they actually have the nuts.

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I play a lot of the lower limits and I an called a bully quite often just by being super-aggressive. I'll only raise with good hands but the raises are calculated according to chipstacks and not pot size.

Or find joosebucklol's video thread somewhere on this site, and watch how he plays the late stages of a sit and go.

woo thanks for the shoutout

I like to play the chip lead more agressive but not maniac. THe best thing about the chip lead is you can more comfortably play all those cards you always want to play, but refrain from doing so cause of odds. 56o thru 9To, and the occasional connected babies. When they hit you can often be sure no one is putting you on those little hands, and attack you with BIg cards, thinking everyone lays down little cards PF.

As the stack gets bigger, I usually get bolder and run smack into the wall with a really bad read. Back to Tight Wimp then.

I dont agree with that play with a big chip stack. I feel people tend to assume the big chip stack will play more hands/bluff more and will nail you in the end.

I play more or less the same in terms of hand selection but put more pressure on my opponents, i rarely raise with real garbage but may do with marginal hands particularly on the button where in low limit i can take advantage of weakness.

BIg chip stacks should be wary of slow players, the site of you betting all the time makes people sit back whilst you set the pace and get you

Being on the starting side of the learning curve, I have found the following approach to be quite effective. I learned this through playing a deep stack a little too 'aggressively', but actually rather carelessly.

Heres my new-found approach to playing deep stack...

I will play more aggressively, playing those hands that I like... suited middle connectors through off-suit mid-high connectors and the occaisional low end connectors. My bet size increases, BUT, I will bet the same large (in relation to both pot odds and stack size) bets with both rags and nuts, showing my pocket in both instances. What I find then is that my opponents do not know what I am playing with because they have seen the same bets with all different kinds of hands. After a few shows like this, they tend to get very much more cautios and fold alot against me in the later rounds.

Of course I make sure that post-flop my actions soorespond to whats on the board. i.e. if there is a possible flush draw or straight draw, etc....

Did that make sense?