How to Win Money in NL Holdem

I’m now in trouble, I cannot win money in NL holdem anymore. Though I’ve tried almost everything, still nothing happened.

I’ve heard that aggressive poker is actually a good poker, and that an aggressive player always wins the pot. Is this true?

How about if an ABC player raise with preflop (AA, KK, QQ, AK), and some suited connectors or AQ or even AJ in late position will be added, what do you think will this be sensible? I guess it will just increase the rate at which I’m losing, so it’s nonsense at all.

How about for an instance in a $3/6 NL game online the players are pretty decent so when you bet 2/3 the pot at a 842 flop, they have just figured out you are just betting overcards, therefore they just thought of either calling or re-raising. What’s your insight on this? I have actually experienced this one and I lost about 1/6th my buy in.

Do you think being aggressive at the table is the better way out and the better way to win the pot? If not, then should I tighten up? But I have already tried to tighten up and it wasn’t that effective.

How about if I try to be passive? Well, I also tried to be passive once and the results were not that good. But at some point, I thought that maybe everything was because of a bad beat or maybe wrong moves that came out of the blue.

So what now? I think I need some improvements. I think I need to develop sort of aggression on my plays. Also, I need to know when to slow play or re-raise a good hand as well as on how to get paid off with your good hands, particularly when you are playing ABC poker.

Can you help me? Please.

Thanks!

Carter

Carter,

Phil Gordon likes to state that “aggressive poker is winning poker.” Aggression is good for driving people out of pots. If you have what appears to be the lead or the clear edge, you need to bet to force players out or make them pay to draw out on you.

When you have good hands, you need to be aggressive with them. Slow playing should be done when you flop a monster hand or pick up a monster on later streets. With slow playing you need to be sure you are not giving them opportunities to outdraw you, such as slow playing a set when there is 2 spades on board.