Quasi-Awesome Preflop Question

[elindauer]

pretty clear limp IMO. When my opponents' main mistake is that they are too loose, I want to play small pots against them, not big, especially when I hold seven-high. Looseness is punished most severely in small pots.

If I limp in, then I can basically play fit-or-fold, which is a really easy way to play and highly profitable against the players described. When I raise, I have to try to out-guess them, as I semibluff and bluff off chips trying to make loose players fold. While a good player can certainly show a profit this way, I don't think you win as much as you can by limping.

Note particularly that if these players have any image of me, it's going to be that I am a lag. Bloating the pot with no hand hoping to make them lay down later feels pretty ill-conceived.

As for mixing it up... mixing up your play against two guys who have been desribed as not even noticing what you've been doing is quite a stretch. Take the +EV play. Save the mix ups for the tough games.

Finally, dominating hands in the blinds really don't concern me. I'll easily get away from a second best hand in a small pot should the tough player show aggression, and it's really the straight and flush type hands that will be my bread and butter with this setup.

-eric