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Message: [QUOTE="zachvac, post: 1230036, member: 26306"] ok sorry maybe that came off wrong. I never said people were "doing" it wrong at all. But I've seen so many times people post here about how they only called because they were playing small ball and don't want to put money in preflop. The point of small ball as I understand it is winning a lot of small pots and building an aggressive image so that people will pay you off in big pots mistakenly thinking that means later in the hand you go crazy too. Anyway the point is you raise a lot preflop when the betting rounds are cheap. Yet almost all the posts I see anywhere are about how they didn't want to put too much money in with AK because they were playing small ball or they just limped because they were playing small ball. It's just an excuse people use to not play aggressively when really the entire point of small ball is aggressive play preflop. I'm not commenting on how people are doing it or their play at all. Most people that actually do it probably don't even refer to it as small ball. I'm just commenting about the times I see it used here in the strategy section. See Orange's post to what people seem to think it means. Small ball doesn't mean not risking your stack preflop, it means risking small amounts of chips a ton of the time preflop and stealing a ton to take the blinds and build an aggressive image to exploit later. It's not like it's some super-complex system but it does mean being aggressive preflop when most of the times I see it be it this forum or any other forum/person they think small ball means playing passively preflop because they haven't seen the flop yet. Anyway this is kind of off topic so I'll let it go for now. Sorry if I offended anyone but search for the term small ball and I'm pretty sure I'm right here. [/QUOTE]

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