playing for Deception!!!

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I need help on becoming more deceptive on my game, seems to be that every time I make a move I get caught. If I am playing loose, everybody reraises me at every chance, if I am playing tight every1 folds to me when I raise, I just play too straightforward. The best player on my regular game seems to raise with almost any 2 cards, but almost never showsdown a loser. I struggle with the change gears technique, seems that I can start playing very tight, but once I start playing loose I cant comeback.
What would be the best way to improve on my deceptive play???
 
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First of all you don't need to go crazy when you are making moves to be deceptive. For instance if you are a tight player and wanting to loosen up, just add a few additional cards to your ranges.

example: you normally only open raise in MP will AA-JJ AK, AQ. That is a tight range. To mix up your play you might add all pocket pairs 50/50 between Calling and raising. They are great implied odds hands and you are not going completely crazy but your friends will think you lost your mind if you are able to win a showdown with pocket 22's when you hit your set.
 
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I don't know what stakes you're playing but when I play tight I still action on my big hands. I'll fold 25 hands in a row, raise UTG and get shoved on by AJ.

Making moves is usually a bad idea in online poker without very good reads. ABC poker works. Make TPTK, bet strong. Flop the nuts and build a pot. etc.
 
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also, start playing suited connectors, suited gappers, and if your stack is high enough, play double suited gappers, anything connecting, but i let my stack dictate this.
 
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This is actually the opposite problem that I run into. Whereas you play too straight forward, I tend to over trap, and I wind up letting myself get drawn out on. There's nothing wrong with playing straight forward, you just have to make one or two plays that aren't straight forward. If you have a reasonable chip stack, make a medium sized bluff (that you can afford to lose). If you get called and you lose, that's fine, because it sheds your straight forward image. If everyone folds, show it. Once they see a bluff or a slowplay, they will have to stop playing you how they are, for fear that you'll bluff or trap off too many chips from them.
 
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This is actually the opposite problem that I run into. Whereas you play too straight forward, I tend to over trap, and I wind up letting myself get drawn out on. There's nothing wrong with playing straight forward, you just have to make one or two plays that aren't straight forward. If you have a reasonable chip stack, make a medium sized bluff (that you can afford to lose). If you get called and you lose, that's fine, because it sheds your straight forward image. If everyone folds, show it. Once they see a bluff or a slowplay, they will have to stop playing you how they are, for fear that you'll bluff or trap off too many chips from them.

Me too on the first part. Very insightful stuff.
 
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