Comments on: Stages Of A TAG

By: Michael Le

Michael Le — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:16:38 +0000

Hello Ed!

I’m a fan of your books and I’m a loyal customer.

One thing that I can’t see have been mention much is the rake and how much it really effect the winnings over long term. Specially live, in Europe and Macau, the rake is 5% of the pot up to 15USD in games like 2-5USD with 200bb in maximum buy in and 5% up to 30USD in 5-10USD with 200bb max buy in.

What I have heard, the rake is about 200USD an hour for the whole table on 2-5 and about 400USD on 5-10. This can be translated to 20USD and 40USD per player in a 10 handed table every hour.

Thats sounds tough to beat. Specially if you are expecting a good hourly rate as well.

How do you look at it?
Specially live!

With this rake, what can we as pros really expect to win?

Best regards

Michael Le

By: Stages Of A TAG – Part 1 · Professional Texas Hold'em Tips and Strategy from Noted Poker Authority

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:06:24 +0000

[...] while back I developed a model for player development that I call Stages Of A TAG. I think most players go through a series of stages or realizations about no-limit hold’em as [...]

By: stevesnz

stevesnz — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:24:45 +0000

I’m about 6.5

That’s a lot lower than I realised. Very humbling.

Great article

By: Ed Miller

Ed Miller — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:22:38 +0000

Seth,

The new book Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em (no volume 2 anymore) has a good section on Line Balancing (#23).

We talk throughout the book about #24, but there’s no particular section about it I’d say.

By: Seth Baldwin

Seth Baldwin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:18:47 +0000

I’m really excited to find good information on 23 and 24. Can anyone point me to it? PNLH is by far the best book out there on NL cash games. Will volume 2 cover these topics?

By: Steve Brogan

Steve Brogan — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:13:18 +0000

Strangely enough or not so strange, I kind of fit your description. I am a TAG evolving into a LAG somewhat. I mostly play Limit but venture into No Limit Tourneys on a small scale with some success. I have won first place three times on the “Twitter Poker Tour” in the last three months.
I think I have successfully avoided the Noob stage, as I have read over 30 poker books, read blogs such as your for information and help, have done some on line poker training and I know that this will be on going if I intend to become and stay profitable. I really enjoyed this post today. Thank you.

By: FREDDIE BICKNESE

FREDDIE BICKNESE — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:14:55 +0000

Excellent article as usual. Inspiring and thought provoking.
Are you going to follow this up with levels 26, 27 … etc.?

By: Iggy

Iggy — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 05:29:28 +0000

This is an awesome article. I find myself between stages 7 and 8 right now, although I think I have 10-14 down. I look forward to SSNLHE/PNL2 for some tools to help me get to 25 and beyond.