show aggression broken out on a street by street basis. These
are useful numbers because they help you spot certain
recurring patterns of betting which can be exploited.
For example, most players now know to make a
continuation bet on the flop when they led the betting
preflop. But if that bet doesn't win the pot, a weaker player
won't be sure how to continue on the tum. He may shut down
at that point either for pot control (if he actually has
something) or because he's afraid his opponent has a hand
and can't be pushed off it. So a pattern of high flop
aggression coupled with low tum and river aggression
indicates a player who's only confident of putting more
money in the pot on the tum and river with a big hand. It's
worth floating this player and stealing pots with late bets or
raIses.
Another common pattern is the player who has low
aggression on the flop and tum but high aggression on the
river. This is probably a player who's playing a lot of drawS
and rnid-pair/low-pair type hands, and who wants to see all
his cards before folding. You can extract a lot of value from
this player with a real hand, but a river bet from him probably
means he has something good.
For most players, flop aggression will be higher than
tum aggression, which in tum will be higher than river
aggression. That's because they know about continuation be~S
on the flop, so a higher aggression number on that street 15
common. But after meeting resistance, they will then switch