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Message: [QUOTE="Big_Rudy, post: 1868449, member: 73333"] Wow, someone put a LOT of work in here. Thanks, Debpes. You've put together a pretty nice outline of the player types. I'm pretty much in agreement with all of them. One thing that it does bring-out is that, even at the lowest stakes, you'll be most profitable moving away from a strictly ABC-style of poker to a more villain-dependant, exploitive style. In other words, if you attack the SLP in the same manner you attack the nit (with the same range of hands), you might as well be burning money. On the simplest level, this is because you can often push the nit off his hand almost regardless of what cards you hold (he will usually let you know if he has something). If you try the same thing against the SLP (widely-known as "calling stations"), you'd better have at least some kind of hand because he's not likely folding to your bets. I think Nathan didn't discuss LAGs in "Crushing..." because his opinion is that you'll rarely see them at the lower levels. TBH, given the current poker climate in the US, I feel that thinking my be a little dated. The games have gotten noticeably tougher lately, particularly on sites that cater to US players where a large portion of the casual player pool has simply given up the game, while the "regs" continue chugging along. Having said that, I still think its fairly rare to see a "good" LAG at the lowest levels. There are, however, a fair amount of poor LAGs, imo. I classify them as something of a "mini-maniac". Their stats won't be the 90/80 you've allotted to the maniacs, but will be more like 40/30, or 50/40. The difficult part, imo, is determining if they are "good" LAGs or, more typically, bad LAGs. That's not always easy for me to do, especially if I'm multi-tabling with stacked tables so I can't watch them closely. Beyond that, I'm not sure where you want to go with this. Maybe discuss the styles that give you the most trouble, why they are difficult for you to play against, and counter-measures? Not sure if that's what you really wanted or not. Anyway, you've put together a pretty nice outline there. Thanks. [/QUOTE]

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