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Tylor Mendez
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In Phil Hellmuth's book on NL Holdem Tournaments:
TAG = Tight Aggressive
This is a perfect strategy for playing early stages of the tournament, because loose players will try to play draws on you, when you have the advantage with overpairs or sets. Sometimes you'll have them crushed on a two diamond board and you have AKd and they have lets say 67d or something. So it is worth it to stay patient.
The biggest weakness to this strategy, however, (this wasn't mentioned in Phil's book) is:
PLAY IN POSITION.
If that means folding some hands like QJ A10 AJ in early position, then that's what you must do, otherwise YOU WILL BE EXPLOITED BASED ON RANGE. They will put you on medium pairs or broadway hands (Paint Cards), and they will try to play those 67s 89s J10s in position and just barrel away at you when your hand is susceptible to loosing to the nuts.
Give it a try.
That is all. Good luck.
TAG = Tight Aggressive
This is a perfect strategy for playing early stages of the tournament, because loose players will try to play draws on you, when you have the advantage with overpairs or sets. Sometimes you'll have them crushed on a two diamond board and you have AKd and they have lets say 67d or something. So it is worth it to stay patient.
The biggest weakness to this strategy, however, (this wasn't mentioned in Phil's book) is:
PLAY IN POSITION.
If that means folding some hands like QJ A10 AJ in early position, then that's what you must do, otherwise YOU WILL BE EXPLOITED BASED ON RANGE. They will put you on medium pairs or broadway hands (Paint Cards), and they will try to play those 67s 89s J10s in position and just barrel away at you when your hand is susceptible to loosing to the nuts.
Give it a try.
That is all. Good luck.
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