Deep Stacks Against a LAG
Depth amplifies pressure, and pressure is the LAG's whole game: at 250bb their triple barrel threatens your stack instead of your buy-in top-up. The counter is pot geometry, not heroism.
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Keep medium hands in medium pots
Deep against a LAG, the call-down doctrine gets a ceiling: top pair still calls flop and turn, but choose lines that keep the river bet survivable. In position, call rather than raise; out of position, check-call flop and turn and evaluate rivers by sizing.
Trap deeper, more often
The LAG's barrels fund your slow plays at depth: flatting their 3-bet with queens plus, check-calling twice with sets, letting them build the pot your monster wants. The same traps that starve against a TAG feast against a LAG deep.
Choose flips in position
Deep LAG pots swing hardest when you are out of position; the marginal defends that are fine at 100bb should tighten OOP at 250bb, and loosen in position where you control the river.
Worked hand
Worked hand
240bb, you flat the LAG's button 3-bet with J♠ J♥. Flop 9♣ 6♠ 2♦: check-call. Turn 3♥: check-call. River K♦, they overbet shove 130bb. The king is the card their bluffs prayed for and their value never needed. Deep-stack overbets are value-heavy even from LAGs: fold, and know that at 100bb with normal sizing the same hand calls. Depth changed the answer, not the villain.
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The mistakes that cost you
- Raising their barrels off your medium hands (folds air, pays hits).
- Treating 250bb call-downs like 100bb ones.
- Refusing every big fold because LAGs bluff (sizing plus depth still talks).
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