Aggressive vs Loose

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Hi my pokerpals .
In tournaments or cash games
When I have to play agressive and in what moment I have to play loose . :(
 
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You can play loose and aggressive at the same time :D aggressiveness is a way how you play each hand, you can be aggressive or passive and looseness is range of hands you play, you can be tight and you can be loose...

Everyone here would tell you top play tight aggressive at the beginning and get little loose later when blinds get higher... it sounds really simple but actually it's not...
 
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Your playing depend on the game that you play and on the player against you play.
I will tell you something that I read on some article. It says you should be aggressive when you have less than 12BB and be patience and loose when you have more than 12BB. When you have less than 12BB you should play more cards 55-AA, AK,AQ and when you have more than 12BB you should play only with AA,KK,QQ,AK.
 
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Personally it depends who you're playing and analyzing Tournament Quickly against which players are playing. by very aggressive one is in a tournament one as Player must analyze when put Taigth losse. o When losse be aggressive.

I hope you understand me: D
 
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It depends of the style of game of your opponents, if the opponent play too much hands and it's very loose you can be agressive with him and win many pots, but if the opponent play very tight it's better to be careful.
Everything depends on the observation ;)
 
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Lets clarify this as there is NO SUCH THING as loose versus aggressive - they do not exist in the same dimension.

There is passive versus aggressive.
There is tight versus loose.

You can be tight/aggressive.
You can be loose/aggressive.
You can be tight/passive. (not recommended)
You can be loose/passive. (DEFINITELY not recommended)

You CANNOT be tight/loose or aggressive/passive.

Here is why -
Tight/Loose has to do with THE CARDS YOU PLAY
Aggressive/Passive has to do with PLAYING YOUR CHIPS


Tight/Aggressive basically means waiting for good hands then betting the hell out of them when they do.

Loose/ Aggressive means - who needs a hand? - bet the hell out of whatever and the Red Sea parts.

This why you will hear - "Always be aggressive."

Capiche?
 
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My advice is to always be changing how you play, never play the same way, it makes it hard for your opponents to get a read on you. You have to experiment with it a little bit, but you'll get it.
 
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if you are new to poker, you dont really want to be playing loose,
stick to playing tight and aggressive so your raising with QJ/QK, KQ, KJ A-10toAK or better in late position.. and medium to big pairs you can get involved.

Suited connectors you want to try and see a flop for cheaply but try to again get in cheap and in late position, and use all the information you have available to you to make easier decisions - Bet/Check/Fold
if you act first you will be lost.

see how you go and get experience you might pick this up very easy
 
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As MediaBLITZ says never be passive! Its always a loosing strategy. So the question boils down to "When to be tihgt and when to be loose?"

Preflop:
- be tight in a loose table
- be looser in a tight table

Postflop play depends on what type of oponent (and how many oponents) you are facing...
 
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aggression is key, just know when your beat and your not getting people to fold no matter what you bet. Dont be too agressive when you know the train is gonna crash. learn to switch gears depending on the circumstances.
 
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There's aggressive and then there's reckless, you can take aggression too far and while you will wind up with a huge stack quickly sometimes, you can and will often bust out just as fast. In the 2013 wsop ME there was an amateur who was from Belgium or someplace around there, I think Dick Van Luijk was his name, he was the chip leader for quite a while then IIRC shoved something like 80BB with a weak King and was knocked out.

One reason that beginners are advised to only play premium hands is that it helps keep you out of marginal situations post-flop when you don't yet have good skills developed for those situations. An important skill, which is hard, is being able to lay down that premium hand that you opened the pot with if there's good evidence post-flop that you're outgunned.

Some pros do very well with a LAG style but it takes a lot of skill and tends to have higher variance also.
 
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