Staying Away from Quality players

[ill rich]

it dosen't matter much so long as you generally play tigher with them IN the pot with you and looser AGAINST them. as a simple example if you, a good player (who knows you're good), and a bad player are in a pot and rags flop and the good player bets you shouldn't chase him down without a good draw or quality hand such as a big pocket pair. if you chase him down with AK, AQ that's probably a bad play, because the bad player will call and the good player knows this consequently he has some sort of hand. tend to fold. however if it's just you can him and rags flop you can probably stick with him with a pair or even AK, AQ high a good portion of the time (not ALWAYS) because he would figure you'll fold most of the time (which you WILL do but you'll have to stop him from attempting these bluffs and semi-bluffs too often)

they won't bluff a man who wont fold, but they will value bet. they might try to move you off a hand however (if they recognize you're good).

against a good player i would tend to semi-bluff more, bluff very infrequently, and bet for value with only my stronger hands. also i would fold in marginal situations but recognize when a "marginal situation" against a bad player, might actually be a decent situation against a thinking player.

generally if they're equal skill level you'll break-even against them but they do reduce your hourly rate by sharing the profits of the lower quality players mistakes.

as long as there are enough players in the game who you're better than, or the bad players are so bad they're making a ton of mistakes - just stick around a play.