[Yo'Maha]

You are probably right about that rule - I call it a rule, because it's the advice I hear most...."tighten up against bad players and play the percentages against them. Overall, you'll beat them". I have always equated this to playing tighter pre-flop, but I think the moral here is not necessarily that. Post-flop is where I am learning you want to play more solid poker.

To that end, I have noticed that while these "rookies" rarely meet two cards they don't like, seem to call everything, and you can't always get a good read on where you are at in the hand, they also let you in the pot for cheap. You see very few pre-flop raises and when you do, you usually know where you are in the hand, so the call is almost easier. So kind of talking this thing through here, I guess the right advice is to see alot of flops and play good post-flop poker.

Along with the rest of the advice that came in....i.e, rarely bluff and never naked bluff...don't get too tricky, etc., I'm also learning that they are never reading you the way you think they are, or should. They don't think the same as you, so I guess remembering that will help.

Either way, I still got clobbered the other night in my home game again. Fish-boy chased a straight all the way to the river against all three of my pot-sized raises with the nuts and a board that should have told him to let it go.

Baited the hook, cast the line, hooked-up the fish, reeled him to the boat......then the river came and took my fish away....along with the rest of my chips. Oh well, I guess it's bound to happen. Thanks for all the good advice. Interesting discussion.