The term “Loose” in this case refers to starting hand selection, while “Aggressive” refers to post-flop betting. Players who employ a LAG style play a wide range of starting hands with the hopes of outplaying their opponents after the flop and reducing opponents’ capabilities of putting them on a specific hand.

The fundamentals of a LAG style are extremely dependent on two things: position and opponents’ tendencies. Playing mediocre hands out of position can be a disaster, regardless of how great a player’s post-flop skills are. It can be argued that even the best player in the world is unable to play certain hands profitably from out of position. With that in mind, a loose aggressive strategy will generally work best versus weak TAG players who overvalue starting hands once the community cards are in view.

While TAG players enter pots for showdown equity purposes, LAG players rely heavily on an often overlooked value… fold equity. After all, anyone who raises in position with rags is not doing so due to hand strength, but rather to (a) pick up the blinds, (b) hit a monster hand and stack off, or (c) outplay an opponent post-flop and make him/her to fold the best hand.

This is not to say that LAG players are unable to play premium hands profitably… quite the contrary. LAG players have a much better chance of getting paid off with their monster hands, while TAG players have trouble getting action at times. Perhaps the most challenging part of a Loose Aggressive style is maximizing value on such a wide range of starting hands – which brings us to one truth: LAG style is not recommended for pure beginners.

Any player employing a loose aggressive strategy will be required to play in many post-flop situations with draw hands. One of the most common confrontations in deep-stacked poker is between basic TAG and LAG styles, where both players are jockeying for maximum value. Understanding pot odds (and implied pot odds) is a key to successfully playing straight draws and flush draws in No Limit Texas Holdem. There will be times you are forced to lay down a decent drawing hand, simply because your TAG opponent will overbet – not giving you the appropriate odds to stay in the hand. There will be other occasions in which you’ll muck a mediocre holding pre-flop because your opponents’ short stack sizes do not justify entering a raised pot as an underdog.

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