cash game/ring game PLAY STYLE

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What should be the playing style for cash game/ring game ?

I use Tight-Agressive and Check-raise abit more often.

Can any pro tell me if im good to go with that style ?

Thank You :D
 
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im not a pro

im not a pro but i can say I play alot. The best way to play in my opionion is tight aggressive. The only other way too play in a cash game in my opionion is the maniac/super aggressive but only a few can master this way of play. So stick to tight aggressive. and play your position to the fullest. Dont be afraid to reraise a raise with your med pocket pairs, and your A xfacecard. make them fear you :)

also if you dont want people every bluffing into you show them a donkey call for a little bit of your chips calling with K high or something so people think you cant be bluffed. I use this trick alot so I dont get alot of people playing into me.
 
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im not a pro but i can say I play alot. The best way to play in my opionion is tight aggressive. The only other way too play in a cash game in my opionion is the maniac/super aggressive but only a few can master this way of play. So stick to tight aggressive. and play your position to the fullest. Dont be afraid to reraise a raise with your med pocket pairs, and your A xfacecard. make them fear you :)

also if you dont want people every bluffing into you show them a donkey call for a little bit of your chips calling with K high or something so people think you cant be bluffed. I use this trick alot so I dont get alot of people playing into me.

THank you for sharing the tips buddy! You seem alot more educated than the donkey above your post. Im surprise the mod allow flames oh well they always fun to laugh at cause you know they are mad cause they have no clue what a strategy is well you can't expect much from a donkey can we ? :p
 
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TAG is fine if you do it well and so is LAG. just judging by your question, i can tell you that you should definitely go with a TAG style, master it, get really good at postflop play before you even consider becoming more LAG. a successful LAG style is much more demanding.

your mention of check-raising is kind of vague.. it's obviously important to do sometimes so that other players can't simply take your checks at face value as weakness, but it really depends under what circumstances you're using it. a couple questions: are you currently a winning player? and what limits are you playing at? this makes a difference in how much "trickiness" (where i'd classify check-raising) and bluffing you should be using
 
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It depends on the table. Everyone is so LAG lately at cash games, often a couple hyper LAG's, that a TAP style works for me. (LAG = loose/aggressive, TAP = Tight/aggressive/Passive(postflop)).

But if the table is considerably tight then I play LAG. See how that works?:D
 
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I range from LAG to HAG, but I do merge my range when the table starts opening up.
 
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I agree

i am a donkey dont get me wrong first of all :)

But everyone else is right it really depends on your table. You gotta really take in account how everyone else is playing.

For example, if i get to a game and its super tight I will raise every pot for 15-20 hands IN POSTIION and i dont care how much it costs me because I know it will loosen up the table and thats when i make the most money.

but i think in general the best overall strat. is Tight Agressive play. I dont like the passive play postflop because if you are playing in vegas espal. so many players now n days are so good at poker they will test you. I like the strong post flop play because thats where poker separates the men from the boys in poker. Anyone can be a great preflop player but its what you got post flop that makes you a damn good poker player.

PASSIVE PLAYERS WILL GET PICKED ON!
 
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It does depend on the table and how they are playing also.
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First rounds play very tight... Than testing the opponents if they respect me and folds most the time when I raise, and if they call will they fold if I bet on the flop most the time.... When they do I will play loose aggressive and steal many pots.
 
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I like the tight aggr-aggr style. I'm very aggressive post flop also but kinda nitty on the river. I can play as tight as 16/12 or open my game up to 24/20 depending on the table dynamics. Post flop stats are around 6/3/2 overally. Cbetting a bunch leaves room for many profitable two barrels (with or without a made hand) and your great hands get paid more often too. I think being passive post flop leaves you too much without information and can get you outdrawn a lot. Sometimes though, it's good to play a bit passively against very aggressive players.
 
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All styles are valid, but in the beginning (you've just taken your seat), you should be cautious, aka TAG. If you get the big hand the very first hand u play, and bet it aggressively, then you need to understand that that action will define your table image for may orbits. If you showed down that big hand, and won, then you will get respect. If you show down with big holdings but lost, you will get respect, albeit different, and it will be that 'you got game'.

If you sit passively for several orbits before you either decide the time is right or you get the big hand, then you will likely go uncontested the first time you play.

Over the course of an hour you will find that at times circumstances dictate your actions, and at other times circumstances can be dictated by you. So again, all styles are valid.

I prefer not getting big hands early. It gives me a chance to get a read on each of the players, and the table tempo. On those occasions when I do well, I have noticed it is because I found the tempo, and my reads were fair, and it was a rhythm that I got tuned into.
 
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Here is an article you might find interesting/helpful:

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.
 
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