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Texas Holdem Strategies Becoming A Loose Aggressive Player
All the Texas Holdem strategies in the world won’t help a player who doesn’t understand the first thing about bankroll management. Understanding how to manage your finances both at the table and away from the table will determine how well you can build up your own bankroll. Out of the four table personas one can dawn, the loose aggressive player requires the most expertise in bankroll management, opponent reading, and planned aggression. Let’s get to it.
In terms of bankroll management you first need to have your finances squared away before sitting at the table. If you expect to do away with the bill collectors by having a few lucky nights at the table playing loose aggressive poker, I’m sorry it’s never going to happen. The fear of not winning will be too great for you to make the correct plays at the right time. Your mind has to be clear and your relationship with money has to be pure as well. Once you sit down at the table you have to have zero reservations about going broke. 20 times the buy in for cash games and 50 times the buy in for tournaments should pretty much cover it. You’ll need to put down a lot of chips too when you sit down, no short stacking allowed if you want to comfortably play loose. Playing loose aggressive requires you to bluff, steal blinds, and run over the table with, what appears to the rest of the table anyway, reckless abandon.
Now you’ll need to understand the concept of table personas and putting your opponents on ranges to be able to identify which spots your bets will work and which spots you need to slow down. There are a total of 4 basic table personas the tight passive, tight aggressive, loose passive, and loose aggressive. From there you can break them down into various sub categories but this should be enough to get you started. Once you’ve identified each players type at the table it’s time to start putting them on hand ranges. Tight players will typically stick to premium hands unless they’re in the blinds. Loose players will open up their range more, but depending on the type of loose player this range will vary. Once you can spot their range you can determine whether or not a bet on the flop will produce a fold, call, or raise out of your opponent. If you know they’ll call or fold then you are making a wise play. If you know they’ll raise its best just to save your chips.
When you know your opponents are going to call, you need to be planning your next move. Re-evaluate what they may possibly be holding before firing another barrel into the pot. If you put them on a draw, force them off it. If you put them on a strong hand where they’re attempting to smooth call you to set you up for their own move, slow down. Loose aggressive players have to think a few moves ahead of their opponents and see what their opponents are going to do before they even do it.
Holdem strategy is all about knowing what your opponents will do before they actually do it. You don’t want to bet heavily into a pot against an opponent who isn’t going to back down, but you do want to force opponents off hands where they’ve made top pair with a weak kicker, middle pair hoping to draw out to two pair, or players chasing after straight and flush draws. Some players don’t back down until the river, some back down on the flop. By identifying when each player typically folds their hand you have a better shot at picking up additional chips for your stack.
Playing loose aggressive poker takes a lot of focus and willpower. If you slow down you surrender your position as table captain. Once that’s gone it becomes much harder to regain it. If someone else comes along and takes your position as table captain away from you, its best to move on to another table. Your chip stack will thank you for it later.
Different Poker Styles
When you´re playing Poker you should realize that certain players play differently than others. Some people will find that the best way for them to play is to be very aggressive with their bets and raises while others discover that the most successful strategy for them seems to be playing tight and reigning in their bets.
But no matter how one plays at the table, they will have to vary their strategies at some point and leave their comfort levels if they are to be a great player in the long run.
TIGHT
This playing style is almost the exact opposite of aggressive play. Tight players play far fewer starting hands, and are patient enough to wait for the right hands, the right position, and the right situation to make their move While the social side may still be important to them, the main goal here is to play winning poker while taking the bare minimum of risks.
LOOSE
A loose player will tend to play a lot of hands, usually paying to see the flop, and often play right to the River, even with a mediocre hand. The type of person that plays this style is often not overly bothered about making profits, they are in the game for the social aspect and have a carefree attitude accordingly, and they adjudge that playing tightly is a waste of their time as they want to be involved in the action, not watching it. They are willing to pay over the odds to continue with their hand, because of that, making this style of play unprofitable in the long run.
PASSIVE
A passive player plays with cold feet , hardly raising and betting if at all, opting to use a strategy based on checking and calling instead. They are happy enough to let an opponent dictate the action, they are mastered of calling large bets when chasing their draws and turn down to bet the pot when they have the best hand,because of that, minimizing their own winning possible and maximizing their opponents.
AGGRESSIVE
The aggressive poker player will raise like crazy and possibly go all-in at various points in an attempt to scare people away from pots. These types will dominate smaller hands and steal lots of chip from others even when they have nothing. However, aggressive players can often get burned when they refuse to yield to tight players in big pots.
Aggressiveness is a style of play often used in the poker world! Aggressive player likes better to bet, raise and re-raise when involved in a hand, in order to put maximum pressure on their opponents. His goal is to either force their opponent out of the pot, or to create an environment where their opponent is more likely to make mistakes.
FISH
These are the players that think theyve got a shot at winning every hand and will sometimes deliver bad beats to other players. But in the end, their nonsensical play will come back to bite them as they will lose out on chips in the long run.
SHARKS
These are the players who can consistently make money playing poker and probably even make a living off of the game. Its normally best to try and play in rooms that have the fewest sharks possible as theyll get their money no matter what. In the end, the one who can find the most fish and below average players will be the one who makes a profit over the long haul.