Games getting tougher? PSSHHHHH!

[mcatdog]

People are still giving their money away, you just have to work a little harder to take it.

At my 100NL 6-max game tonight on PS, 3 fish left the table all of a sudden, leaving me, and the two TAGS to my left who were kinda nitty and kinda bad. I'd been stealing their blinds relentlessly for the past hour, and although I was about to leave the table, I decided to keep taking their blinds until they did something about it. Here are the 20 hands I played against them, in condensed form.

1. Button, 4 3 raised to $3.5, stole blinds.
2. BB, A 4, button raised to $4, SB called, I made it $20 to go and they folded (I had made a huge re-raise like this and shown down AA about 15 hands earlier).
3. SB, T 4, open-folded.
4. Button, Q J, raised to $3.5, stole blinds.
5. BB, A 5, checked down to the river with SB when I made the nut flush, bet $2 and he folded.
6. SB, 9 2 open-folded.
7. Button, A Q, raised to $3.5, stole blinds.
8. BB, Q J, SB limped I made it $4 and he folded.
9. SB, T 4, open-folded.
10. Button, 3 7, open-folded.
11. BB, 4 3, checked down and folded to a river bet.
12. SB, 7 6, button limped, I limped and potted a 432 rainbow flop, they folded.
13. Button, A A, raised to $3.5, stole blinds.
14. BB, K 6, folded to a Button raise.
15. SB, Q 5, raised to $3.5, stole blinds.
16. Button, Q 9, raised to $3.5, BB called and checked a 976 flop with 2 diamonds, I bet $5 into the $7 pot and he folded.
17. BB, K 5, folded to a Button raise.
18. SB, 4 2, open-folded.
19. Button, 7 Q, open-folded.
20. BB, A K, Button raised to $4, I made it $14, he re-raised to $45, I shoved and he called off his last $95. Brick brick brick brick brick, sorry grinder, AQ no good.

Total stats: 20 hands, VPIP 55%, PFR 45% (including 2 preflop re-raises), +$155.35.

My intention isn't to make a brag post (because obviously most of this has to do with me running hot over a period of only 20 hands), but rather to try and help the people here who have been complaining about the games getting infested with TAGs. Who gives a shit if they are? Just because they're TAGs doesn't mean they're any good. You can still put them on tilt and take their money. Open up your game!

[Seasider]

"20. BB, A K, Button raised to $4, I made it $14, he re-raised to $45, I shoved and he called off his last $95. Brick brick brick brick brick, sorry grinder, AQ no good. "

Thats funny, I bet hes not normally playing AQ like that. Also randomly re-raising their standard c-bets annoys them and whilst it can be expensive short term it sets up some monster pots later in a session. Playing more aggro means they will think of you as a 'fish' pretty quickly, they all have PT and are probably studying your stats (I min raise and stuff a bit to mess about with these sometimes) as it strokes their egos and once that seed is planted in their minds it is hard to shake off.

Still rather sit down at a table with someone pushing their 8 high bluff into your aces preflop tho

[euphoricism]

I ran 33/27ish for a while and it was $$free money$$.