Tuesday 22 March 2011

TAG

The basic rules for 5nl

When starting to play online poker, you should understand that almost any style can work. The pro's that you see on the tv and videos all have crazy styles and obviously it works. However the style most people are going to be able to use and is proven to work is the low variance TAG style, especially at microstakes.

So what does "TAG" mean? TAG means tight aggressive, that means you're playing a small range of hands (between 16% to 25% of your cards normally) and when you go into a pot, you're very aggressive.The characteristics of TAG players are that they will raise preflop with strong cards, 3 bet preflop (3 betting is raising before any cards are turned over on the flop) and will play post flop very aggressively even if they have missed sometimes.

This is a picture of the cards that you should be playing preflop, this is extremely simplified though. As this does not take into account position. I will explain position in a future blog.

19 comments:

  1. Thanks, This will certainly improve my poker play!

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  2. mhh. this might actually be helpful when playing poker

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  3. Might have to get onto that, seems good

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  4. this is great, we were just talking about poker strategies in stat class!

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  5. 72s also? why should one want to play that??

    following!! :)

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  6. Just the purple ones, should of said that actually. Thanks. :p

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  7. I love poker and this is a great post, problem is I'm really loose when I play, I'm pretty much Tony G. following :)

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  8. Looks like periodic table at first :)

    foloowing

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  9. Good advice, I tend to play really conservatively and I guess that bites me sometimes :/

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  10. how much should i win? is it still chance? what are the odds?

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  11. this one is even more interesting...

    followed!

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  13. great post man, gonna think about this
    followed you, hit me back, follow!

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  14. @tortoracer: depends what stake you play, after a year you're looking at maybe 50 dollars per hour.

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