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how wise is it to be hyper aggressive pre-flop in cash game? in my experience,people want to see flops. so knowing this,is it the best idea to raise and reraise opps that you know will look you up? or perhaps try seeing cheap flops keeping the pots small so you can speculate further ?
 
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You have to be a really good LAG player to be profitable at micros (if you play micros) ... otherwise this is suicide, you will bleed a lot of money. Why? because with that strategy you want people to fold a lot, that's why you are aggressive, but you will only see call call call call. Just play TAG (aggressive with nuts and get paid, passive with bottom pair, air... etc) and you will win at micros.
 
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You have to be a really good LAG player to be profitable at micros (if you play micros) ... otherwise this is suicide, you will bleed a lot of money. Why? because with that strategy you want people to fold a lot, that's why you are aggressive, but you will only see call call call call. Just play TAG (aggressive with nuts and get paid, passive with bottom pair, air... etc) and you will win at micros.

Or even worse they try to be more aggressive then you are. Scary stuff to me.
 
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Depends on who you're playing. If you have little fold equity, you're just giving up coins by being overly aggressive. It's good to mix it up against the regs, but against morons with 50+ VPIP, just play straight forward. No matter what anyone says, it's extremely hard to play against the fold-allergic people when you are on a bad run. During good runs, yes you can clean them out easier. Overall, I actually prefer to play against the multi-tabling regs.
 
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Depends on your opponents. Are they the type of people that fold to 3 bets too often? If so, then lag is the way to go. But for the most part, just play TAG
 
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how wise is it to be hyper aggressive pre-flop in cash game? in my experience,people want to see flops. so knowing this,is it the best idea to raise and reraise opps that you know will look you up? or perhaps try seeing cheap flops keeping the pots small so you can speculate further ?
When you say raise and reraise to get people to look you up, it sounds like you mean value bet. Yes, value betting is the way to go.

Seeing a cheap flop (with implied odds hands like small pocket pairs) is fine if our opponents are weak enough to allow us to make up for it post flop by getting lots of money in with our strong hands.

As for being overly aggressive in general, if you overdo it then you become rather exploitable. However, that won't matter if no one is exploiting you - making light call downs, bluff raising, etc. - so you'll have to work that one out for yourself.

Depends on who you're playing. If you have little fold equity, you're just giving up coins by being overly aggressive. It's good to mix it up against the regs, but against morons with 50+ VPIP, just play straight forward. No matter what anyone says, it's extremely hard to play against the fold-allergic people when you are on a bad run. During good runs, yes you can clean them out easier. Overall, I actually prefer to play against the multi-tabling regs.
You'd prefer to play against me than some drooler who can't fold? Weird.
 
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I think it depends on whether your opponents are like fish or they plan on playing a certain style that will crush hyper aggressive players.
 
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it is not very wise. cash games are different than tourneys and you know why. i have folded for three straight hours at the borgata.
 
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