PP is profitable, particularly the big ones.
Also AK, although several of us (including myself) already show rather variable results on this one.
All of the trouble hands (including AQs and AQo) seem marginal at best. I don't think I can really stop playing the better of these, however--AJs, AQ, KQ
For me, at least, true suited connectors are profitable only in LP, suited one-gappers marginal or unprofitable even in LP.
AXs unprofitable sometimes, but I think worth considering sometimes (limp, multi-way pot, for example, as criteria).
So, here's my question for palman particularly (whom I just consider the best LAG player we have around, but perhaps there are others here who know how to do it as well as he does):
If only the above hands (which results in an excessively tight hand selection) are actually profitable for their CARD VALUE, anything else is really just a kind of bluff.
So, assuming a tight table image (which in theory should make things easier), what kind of LAG play would you suggest trying as a starter? What exactly are you looking for in making it?
Here's what I'm thinking: With the benefit of my tight table image, I think I'd like to start throwing in a good LAG play maybe once every 3 orbits or so. I'm defining a play of that kind as one where you're not playing your own hand at all but those of your opponents.
I'm also thinking that, as far as position, MP is really the place to do it--LP looks too suspicious, and I've really quit altogether with LP pot-buys, as I did almost habitually when I first started playing.
Or should I just forget about LAG and stick with TAG? Currently, it's definitely making me money, but the "cold card" phases are at bare minimum pretty boring... And it would be nice to be able to turn them around (from slowly dwindling to maybe break-even, as initial goal), as I know some players can.
So, anyhow, what do the LAG-ers out there, who are good at making these plays, consider the easiest one to start with?
Here are a few I've seen, just as ideas:
1) Re-raise hard against weak/loose raisers
2) More dangerous, but perhaps also more profitable: Checkraise a flop with 2 to a suit or a straight draw against a weak-ish player likely to bet the turn very softly or not at all after the checkraise, then hit the river hard if the feared straight or flush shows up.
One other question on both of these moves (or others that you guys have): Is it a good idea to have some piece of the board, even if it be bottom pair holding 72o? Or is it better to just ignore your own holdings altogether and play the expected hands of your opponents?
What would be really cool is if you guys could come up with a "favorite introductory move" of this sort, then walk us TAGs through some of the details.
P.S.: I just took the stack of the LAG from the other day, who was drunk tonight and hence had no control over his "targetting"--he walked right into my AA
, which I set up so that I figured he'd move in, as he did.