I play a very LAG game now when playing with 3-6 players and have founf it to be profitable overall.

There are however a few negative aspects for me and I wondered how people feel about them.

E.g I am playing 4 handed $200NL all stacks are deep.

I raise perhaps 50% of my buttons to $7 and if I get 1 call will C-bet most flops for around 2/3 pot (around $10).

This means alot of the time I pick up $3 uncontested
If reraised I probably fold and lose $7
A lot of the time when called I profit $8 - $9
If raised/called on flop bluffing and I end up folding/losing hand I lose $17.

If you are picking up a lot of hads like 87s/A5s/TJo which are missing the flop and getting played back at a bit this soon equates to a losing session.

Under which conditions do you feel you have to abandon the LAG approach, or do you also begin to double barrel bluff if called too regularly on flop?

Well when people play long enough with you they'll spot your pattern, so they'll raise you everytime no matter what they have. That's what I do HU if my opponent keeps betting every flop.

wota, when your flop cb's are called.. how are you usually playing the turn, and more importantly the river when your in position and it gets checked to you??..

For me, in most cases, if my opponent check-calls the flop cb, and checks to me on turn.. i will check behind.. but if he checks again on river, I most likely will 1/2 pot the river with nothing..

LAG play is not as easy to use at limits like 50NL 100NL or 200NL even. so many bets are called that you arent folding out the hands that you should be and it's generally harder to push people off of hands. IMO just play TAG with no tricks at these levels and save the LAG play for the higher stakes.

In my experience a LAG approach is more succesful at a $100-$200NL game that at $1000NL.

I find the average $100-$200 player is weak-tight.

- If they reraise preflop they have KK/AA most of the time.
- If they have 77 and having raised preflop you bet a A52 flop they fold most of the time.
- They will still however stack off on TPTK/overpair fairly regularly if you put them all in

At $100-$200 it is easy to bluff people off hands and also as they are so passive to give credit for raises. At $1000NL I made money playing super TAG. People would reraise me with a hand like 88 preflop, call to the river with an underpair/2nd pair, raise me all in on stone cold bluffs. Everyone else seems to be playing LAG so TAG works quite well (admittedly if I played more hands with the same people they would get a read and stop paying me off no doubt).

Originally Posted by Eclipse86

I agree with Wota here.. Playing LAG is more profitable then playing TAG at NL100 and NL200 because those games are riddled with weak-tight donkeys. If u play tag its very hard to stack someone cuz people are rocks and they dont like getting their money in postflop in a raised pot pf unless they have the nuts or something close to it - so its very hard to get paid postflop imo when playing TAG. However, playing lag at these tables you will gain alot of money from blind steals, and raising pf in position and outplaying ur opponents on the flop with a cb in position. These guys will let u do this to them because they are very weak postflop players, and they almost never ever play back at you preflop with a re-raise. This is for full ring btw, 6max however, im not so sure.

I'm new to NL100 but so far I 100% agree with Eclipse.
I can sit down at a table, raise PF 3-4 times in a row and not 1 person will stand up to me. Maybe 1 or 2 of them will call but if they do then they will almost always fold to my inevitable c-bet. I was talking to my buddy on MSN (Zacobius) while I was playing and I said to him "it seems like these people are afraid of the money....once the big bets start going in, they just get scared."