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Message: [QUOTE="N.D., post: 828971, member: 30036"] Who says you have to do anything according to formula? TAG and LAG are essentially just terms to describe overall playing style. No player worth their chips plays just one way all the time. Nobody thinks you should limp all the time or raise all the time. The whole game is situational and about taking advantage of opportunities... I don't worry about the rake. I know it's big at microstakes and stays big till you get up pretty high. Still, I don't worry about the rake. Part of the rake is the points system that's in place at most sites. At bigger name sites those points are valuable. Where I play, I've reached a level where I can trade points for tournament buy-ins. If I can manage to reach the next level without going broke I can do one more thing which is pretty awesome. I can trade points for cash. Ultimatebet has the Rai$e system in place. It's a tiered system. The higher you climb the faster you make points based on status. This is beyond great because when I first started playing there, they only had one way to make points faster, that was to start tables. Rai$e is way better than that. But there's another reason why I like this. UB tends to have some awesome reload bonuses. But you have to clear them the same way you clear first time deposit bonuses. You clear them by earning points. No need to trade the points in, but you have to amass the points. I know that even if I do go broke, I'm now earning points faster and on my way to earning them faster still... It makes clearing bonus dollars that much easier. But each level in the Rai$e system has it's own rewards that go beyond the speed at which you can earn points... That's just one way the rake at a site is a good thing. Don't sweat the rake, it pays salaries, buys nifty rewards, and pays for buy-ins to big tournaments that most people can't afford to enter, so they enter freerolls or satellites. Rakeback's a good thing, especially if you want to multi-table. But sweating the rake won't make it disappear. You know that 20% that went to the rake cuz you just had to bust someone? You did that to yourself. You could bust them all the same, and be just as aggressive, without pumping the pot up so big. I've pumped the pot up myself, I think most of us have. But I never complained about the house taking it's cut. I've joked about it, but never complained in earnest. If you control the pot better, you can keep it below the rake. Think about it. So you have to bust someone in 4 to 8 hands instead of one fell swoop. It's doable. A lot of folks do it. But for your own sake, remember, aggression is good. Misplaced aggression is bad. [/QUOTE]

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