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[Noted Poker Authority] LAG players who challenge for pots are tricky, because LAG players are hard to stack because they tend to have a weaker hand range and are hard to steal from because they challenge for pots. The 3-betting and stack sizes issues all go down to a lack of implied odds for stacking your opponents and a lack of leverage to steal pots.

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[Extreme Tilt] Bax, LAG, & Players Taking a Shot: The only hand I regretted was when a loose player raised pretty significantly preflop and I wanted to call with my little 66 but a second player reraised all in for about 900 chips. I had 2900 at the time and wanted to call that but I figured one of them was ahead and folded (one guy had AK, the other 88).

[Devin Armstrong] My first Team Canuck blog entry: I also knew that the original preflop raiser was going to make a continuation bet (he was aggressive). Was there any way I could control what the other two players would do after him? I decided that there wasn't, so I checked and hoped ...

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