What is your playing style

does anyone know how can I create a poll? I would like to see what kind of playing style does people have most common. Can anyone start a poll about this subject with choicies 1 loose passive 2 loose aggressive 3tight passive and 4 thing aggressive?

Of course, the validity of the poll would be dependent on whether or not the players responding actually have an accurate read on their own images.

Personally, I'd have to say that I'm a Loose Passive/Aggressive. I love to limp in with ATC to see...

... <snicker> ...

...what the flop brings. It's generally easy...

... <cough> ...

...to see whether you beat or not with a simple... call...

AAAhhh crap, even I ain't buying this...

At ring games I am tight aggressive- neutral

At sit and goes I am tight aggressive- aggressive

At tournies I am Tight aggressive- aggressive

Who is hte other LAG player? There are 2 including me so far

According to my few thousand hands on PT i am semi-loose/aggressive

Does that mean im a SLAG?

Loose passive for teh win

I love loose players I go by the 4 2 rule. Change gears all the time loose, tight, aggressive

Over 30K hands of full ring and 6max pokertracker has me as TAG.

I'm lag, I raise with anything with potential in tourneys and limp with anything that has potential in cash games.... connectors gappers, Ace suited and King suited

oh connectors as low as 45 and A2

THis is a nice pool eheh

[quote=switch0723;715855]Who is hte other LAG player? >>>>>me

I vary LAG,TAG, PAG depending on the situation.

It solely depends on the game and the players at it. In freerolls, I tend to be a little more looser, but play crafty in order to survive the first hour and pick up coveted chips. In money tourneys and ring games, I may play very loose in order to pick up callers with monster hands later. Then again, this strategy may change depending on the feel I get from the table.

usually always tight ,, and aggressive with good hands.
freerolls are a joke no one plays for real
real money tourneys is where the skills at
ring games all depend on the players and the limits

It's not really carved in stone to tell you the truth, but I'm generally LAG.. The only time I'm really TAG is when people around me are LAG or LP or if the blinds are low relative to the stacks

I'm play very aggressive ))

I'm gonna need a donkey option before I can vote in this poll

My game changes depending on the opposition. I've been playing a LOT of TAG lately, because it's what low-stakes SnGs call for. Live, I might play completely different.

It's Not About Style - Chris "Fox" Wallace

From a couple of guy sitting at a bar to some of the best players in the world I hear the same discussion - What's the best style to play? Is it Hyper-Aggressive? LAG? Tight? TAG? Quick gear changes? A “Chip gathering” style or a more conservative style based on survival? Well I am just conceited enough to think I have an answer to the question that so many people have trouble with. And the answer is…

It doesn't matter and the question is unnecessary.

There is not a "style" that wins, only skills. If you play well then rocks will think you are a LAG and LAG's will think that you are tight. Calling stations will think that you are aggressive and so will the weak tight players, but overaggressive players will label you a passive calling station and wonder why they have such terrible luck trying to bluff you. Everyone will be baffled except the other great players and even they will know enough to stay the hell out of your way.

I hear tight-aggressive players talk about how they end up at the bottom of the money so often and I hear they want to switch to a LAG style. I hear LAG's say they keep getting busted early and want to learn how to tighten up without getting blinded off. No matter what style you pick if you stick to one thing you will not do well. Daniel Negreanu is not a LAG all the time, Phil Ivey does occasionally check and call, and I even watched T.J. Cloutier raise from utg with a pair of deuces once. No matter what style you like as you become a better and better player you'll find your “style” changes according to your opponents and that you are often playing the same way as the other highly skilled players are.

If you consider yourself a tight-aggressive tournament player and you are having trouble making it deep into tournaments find ways to improve your game. If you find ways to make more when you are winning and lose less on the pots you lose you'll have more chips to survive that bad beat that would knock you out of the tourney otherwise.

If you are a looser player and getting busted early a little too often just keep working on your game. You'll find that you tighten up a little, and start to play smarter, and soon you will be lasting long enough to hit a little run of cards and get that big stack you were always hoping for.

When I first got serious about poker I talked to my buddy Hatfield every day on the phone and we played $30 MTT's on Party every day. He started much looser and more aggressive and I was a bit of a rock. As we learned more about the game together by reading books and discussing hands our games became very similar. He's still just a little more aggressive than I am, but you'd never recognize that rock in me now and he has tightened up enough that people hardly ever call him a maniac at the tables these days. Neither of us is perfect, but we both moved in that direction enough to end up as very similar players.

To me style is just a starting point. It's the direction that you approach perfection from. Once you stop thinking of yourself as a certain style player, and just try to play perfect poker, you'll be able to adjust to your opponents and play whatever game gets the money. Then you'll never be the LAG who is emailing me asking how to beat a table full of calling stations and you'll never be the rock asking me how to beat maniacs who keep stealing from them all the time.

The only thing you should be worried about is what play makes the most money in a given situation. Once you get to that point style is pointless and the question will fade from your mind. Not long after that someone will ask you what style they should play and you'll see how silly the question is.

AG is right.. The best is to adapt.

Here is 2 pictures today and yesterday...


One day playing tight aggressive- aggressive

One day I was playing tight passiv- passiv

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I had to answer everything because `it depends`.

And for me, it depends on lots of things, opponents, how I feel, how I`m running, stage of tourney - if mtt, etc, etc.

I think most ppl on this site will be similar.

However, I do think if the last option was taken away I would be TAG.

It’s very difficult for me to say what is my playing style I play the according to the situation. I am not a particular type of player who has a fixed pattern of play I varies my playing tactics.

it depends on lots of things

at ring i'm tight aggressive

at tuney i'm tight passive

but this depends too of what players ar at the table

The article AG quoted has some good points.

Guys, if you have a "style," that implies you're trying to get the table to adjust to you, instead of you adjusting to the table. And trust you me, you don't want people to adjust to you.

Be the predator. Call the bluffers, fold to the rocks and raise the weak/tights. Also raise the maniacs, if you think you have any edge at all.

I think a lot of people adjust well preflop to how others play, but there's very little postflop consideration, and quite frankly, I think most people have huge glaring holes in their postflop play. They try to bully the bullies and they enter some kind of checking contest with the weak/tights. This is exactly backwards.

If you're going to be playing a formulaic game because you're multi-tabling, then the style you're most likely to adopt is some kind of tight/aggressive game. But it generally can't be too tight, because you'll be too easy to read, and it can't be too aggressive because you're going to have a difficult time picking your spots when you're not focused on the action. So in that sense, there can be a style. But if you're going to play expert poker, there is no style, there's just decisions and decisions must be made with the opponent in mind.

Very good point FP - I should know cause this was me!!!

U know the situation, in a hand with a maniac, u have AK, flop 567, he bets "he can`t have the straight" turn 4 he bets "bluff" river K "yes, got him!!!" - he turns over pocket 8`s !!!

It is a situation I am pleased to say I have managed to get away from - most of the time!!!

Good points made about adjusting to the players/situations as opposed to sticking rigidly to a “style”.
One exercise I have found really useful when playing is to consciously ask myself the question for each player:

“How should I go about getting the chips from his stack into mine?”

I find this helps to focus the mind on exploiting opportunities at the table and means I am approaching the game with at least a general strategy for success rather than waiting for something to happen.

Of course, if I can’t answer the question for most of the players at the table other than “get lucky” it’s time to find a new table!!

Generally im tight passive. But when later in tourneys im tight agressive.

I have " no clue " what I am . I used to think I was tag , but that was just how I wanted to be not how I really was . I don't really think most of us really know what we are .

either pt stats long term or a couple people you play with alot could tell you more about your own game . ask someone else if they see you as you see you . usually different opinions .

I agree with the big boys , it's not about your style , it's about how you handle the others guys style .

kinda cliche ...i think but i am tight/aggresive...it s been working so.............

im psychopathic/deranged hyper-aggro-spewtard

vanq is fearless aggressive. he's a big FAG

thats an insta-ban afaik