[Boggy Depot]

The key for me in this type of game is whether or not I've been hitting some flops. Math People can say +EV and pot odds are the main (only) consideration but if I'm not hitting flops I don't get into a pot at these types of games without medium pocket pairs or equivalent unless I'm closing the bet and know how much seeing the flop is gonna cost me. Then I'll look with 5-5, Q-Js, Axs, etc. It gets frustrating watching donkeys drag down these monster pots with 9-6os, or seeing that you would have hit runner/runner to win the hand but if you start counting on runner/runner to win then you'll be broke sooner rather than later. Wait till you hit a couple of flops then stick your nose in there a little more often, hoping the poker gods are starting to smile upon you.

It seems there are three types of players at these LAG games: 1) the tight player that sits at the table forever, nursing his stack and pulling down a pot once every hour and a half. 2) The one or two luck boxes who are hitting any two cards they play and have a mountain of chips in front of them, and 3) the twenty or thirty players that sit down, get caught up in the craziness and go broke in an hour and find themselves sitting behind the old-lady at the slot-machines watching her play. If you're not in group two, then be in group one.