Power of Tight and Selective Aggression

I define myself as a tight and selective agressive player. I posted you a blog a couple of days ago about the timing. I would like to further elaborate my thoughts on this.

I, however, am not trying to persuade you to select the style I prefered. I believe tight and selective agression style is definately winning style is a lower stakes I would say up to $1/2. I explained to you why this before - there is no point of trying to pull a bluff against calling station. You simply play straight up! It is all about EV and how you profit long run. Once you start playing $2/4, you will realize that having just solid tight and selective agression style will not make you become a consistent winner.

The reason behind in this is I believe $2/4 is the point where you need to decide whether you decide if you want to poker for living or not. As I have stated on my blog, I consider myself making good amount of money on my job. I have made my decision to step down myself from $2/4 although I was winning solid money and wrote that it was just stress of losing pay check in 5 minutes. I didn't mention on my blog but I will mention it to you here. I also did not know how exactly I should mix it up with LAG style of play when I was playing $2/4.

It is not to say I never tried 3 barrel with air anything but its just about your mental strength on your read. The higher stakes you play, you will see people playing more LAG and loose - they aren't stupid, they play for living, and they make money on their read: not on the run of cards.

Playing LAG I mean is not just complete mindless bluffing against tight player. There are more things to it. How you build your image on the table, how you played certain way against certain hands, I mean there are way too many things to consider. However, I believe you should go with your read all the way if you are bluffing (Selective Agression) and fold your hand ASAP if you think or what not (Tight).

You should never second guess yourself on any part of the hand (flop, turn, and river). Just have a solid perception of your opponent, your read, and the image that you have projected to your opponent. I am sure the variance will start occur once you start doing this but you will start winning a lot more as you perceive it on you and this is where having stable bankroll comes into play to back up your read and the style you defined. Look at my graph from May - August and you tell me if it was pure luck or good run of cards.

I am tempolarily taking a break from playing poker as I have completed the blue print of my future career path and chose not to pursue as poker as my main career. However, it is not to say I quit playing poker. This is my timing to sit back, do other primary things as I defined my poker as secondary job.

When I feel like start playing poker back again, I will start playing $1/2. However, I will study the style of LAG on $.50/1 and play $1/2 again and I am sure I will eventually come back to $2/4 and higher (maybe) depends on how quickly I feel like playing again.