A new style...

Over the years of trying to develop a solid game online I found myself playing ultra tight but also ultra agressive which paid off big. This style I found to have a few problems: It sometimes was very slow, the cards dictated the action, and when depending on the cards for action some bad beats could crush a bankroll. Having the luxury of final table-ing in a few tournaments in the past month, I finally had a bankroll to try a strategy I've always wanted to try at tables where the players were good enough for it to work on. The strategy is very loose and agressive but also the priority is pot control. Bets are way smaller than any other strategy but they are frequent and thought out. Any two cards can be played in late position and the standard raise is 3x the BB. Flop play is very instinctive but the bet is usually about half the pot if checked to. Basically my goal was to control every pot I play, and to play as many hands as possible. Controlling the pot does not mean betting into it every time but more controlling the size through bets and controlling what the other players do. Bets should be small enough to call but large enough to where if an opponent raises you, he is committing a big amount of chips to be wrong.

What I found is that the swings of using this are very big. Most of the time I sit down at a table I'll lose $100-$200 (between 3 tables) total before finally getting up. When I do get up though I usually can leave the table with 3+ buy ins because of all the action I get on my big hands and all the mid sized pots I'm stealing that let me gamble when other players finally decide to raise. I get raised some, but not as often as you think. I mostly get raised when I first sit down and people notice I've been raising to $6 every hand. Also I'll bet a few flops and get raised off of those. I win more pots than I lose though and because of that when I do get raised out of a hand after firing at a flop it is more than covered for the other times I get folded to. Then of course there is the turn and river play where my bets usually stay within the 50-85% of the pot range. This is to allow me to bluff at a lot more pots and get paid off almost every time I do have a hand. I even noticed getting raised a lot more on the river by people with marginal holdings or complete bluffs. People at the table sometimes get mad and will call me a donk but its been so successful that I think its actually a decent strategy. Of course a lot of my play is based on instincts and reading what the other guy has so I can act accordingly. I mix up my play to not try to be too predictable (I start to see a lot of people limping in early positions with big hands trying to get me to build a pot for them to steal). Anyway I wanted to share this with you because of how successful its been and wanted you guys to maybe try it. Thoughts and comments too? Short term losses can be bigger than usual but over a long session you'll almost always end up.