Just off the top of my head, I can think of several advantages to playing this style.
1. It makes you much harder to read and puts more pressure on your opponents. If people know that they are going to be forced to put more moneyin the pot, it puts a tremdous amount of pressure on them. You are able to punish people for playing marginal hands.
2. You get away with a ton of value bets that either win or force people to fold marginal hands. Checking 7th with a semi decent hand (2 pair, a 9 low, etc) will often lose you that last bet if you do not regularly put it in. Which leads to...
3. You almost get paid off with your monsters. Once people see me bet my high pair, or 10s and 8s, I will get paid off on almost any hand for the rest of the session. This might not seem like a big advantage, but it is huge over the long run.
There are other factors, two of which I want to mention. You have to be able to fold hands. Blind agression will not work. Also, I (and I would assume this goes for the above mentioned players) play significantly tighter than the games we play. My vpip on the cryptos (where I spend most of my time) is around 20%. The average table (and player) vpip is around 45%.
Playing better hands more agressivly than the rest of the table = +ev.
Anyway, I figured this thread would give us a place to discuss this in the abstract without spreading it over a bunch of threads.
-JusStatistics: Posted by Juskimo — Sat Aug 19, 2006 12:40 pm
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