NLHTP#15 Swapping Mistakes & Adjusting to Loose Games and Players

[wallenborn]

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Yes, this is the first time I've ever heard to play looser in a looser game. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] Maybe the idea is that if you are a good post-flop player then it may behoove you to splash around a bit more in position.

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Position is the key. If you generally lower your opening standards, you'll not be able to exploit a loose player's mistakes. But against most loose players there is a range of hands that become playable from late position.

Many loose passive players play easily dominated hands, so you'd expect those limpers to have a baby ace or baby king quite often. Postflop they tend to hang on to TPNK too long, and some have a habit of looking you up with any pocket pair. So on the flop, top pair with a medium kicker usually is good enough. All you have to do is make sure nobody traps you with a monster. Since loose-passive players will tell you reliably what they have on the flop, that should be not too hard.

Loose-aggressive players are a different breed. A9s is hard to play against such an opponent, even in position. Against these players i want to see as many cheap flops on the button and cutoff with connectors, suited aces, suited one-gappers, and pocket pairs. Every now and then i'll flop a monster and then it's hasta la vista, baby.

So: against both types of loose players loosen up yourself, but don't loosen up indiscriminately. Be selective in what direction you open up your game.

[xxrod17xx]

I see what you are saying, but not playing snug against loose players or in loose games are for loose players that are thinking....Fortunately I play at limits where people make comments on how incredibly tight I play, but they are still calling my bets all the way down. So I guess this answers the question that I was being biased towards the way I play because I don't play against good LAG players. BTW I have a 10.96 VP$IP (Mostly because I play short in every session) and a PFR% of 5.92.

[Red_Diamond]

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Yes, this is the first time I've ever heard to play looser in a looser game.

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A lot of my older books, seem to advocate to play tight when the game is loose, and vica-versa. The newer literature, or at least the stuff by more hardened writers tends to lean towards the opposite.