Should I have left this table?

[shane88888]

I read the OP, but then the post wasn't titled "The Reason We Put on Pants and Play Live Poker." It was weird.

Try a seat change. It's not like the drunks will care.

[KitCloudkicker]

move up to where they respect your raises obv

[Christian_Peters]

If this ins't the ideal game, then I don't know what is.

Three drunk laggies and a total fish. You just have to be more tight PF when laggies are to act behind. That's it. Just play ABC poker and profit.

[Aces McGee]

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I wanted to find a game I could enjoy

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If this is why you play poker, then you obviously made the right decision.

-McGee

[pocketpared]

I always tell players when I can see their cards. Once they think I'm honest I have them right where I want them.

[atnels]

Even though you are taking crap for leaving - and I admit that this does sound like a great table - I commend you for having the discipline to leave a situation where you felt uncomfortable. If some players were putting off your game by being too aggressive, you're better off getting out of there instead of going on tilt or turning into a calling station yourself.

However, I would say that you might consider anticipating this kind of action in the future and preparing your bankroll and mental state accordingly. Drunk LAGs = money in your pocket.

[Xhad]

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I wanted to find a game I could enjoy

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If this is why you play poker, then you obviously made the right decision.

-McGee

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Yeah, if you have a tilt problem and are concsious about it, or if you're not playing purely for money and think making money this way isn't fun, then you can leave.

If you are trying to make money and have good emotional control this is a dream table, but as others have said not the best seat.

[Hyperrrprank]

I played the other day with a maniac drunk raiser (9 out of 10 hands raised preflop, 9 out of 10 raised on every street following) two seats to my right, and a guy who called blind every single hand even if it was 4 bets to him preflop.

It was a dream, even though I had big swings up and down, I could nail the gambling caller to my left with three bets when I had a hand, isolate against him and the weak preflop raiser, and pad the hell out of pots that I was a favorite to win. You need to tighten up preflop, but be ready with the chips when you've got something worthwhile. Buy an extra rack, be patient, and jam the suited connectors and high pairs. Even though you'll get drawn out on more than normal (large pots = everyone chasing and calling down) the pots you do rake more than make up for it.

[Frond]

Good point. When you do win a few pots on a table like this they are usually on the huge size. More than makes up for the ones you dont win.

[Hyperrrprank]

As a side note, playing at these tables also can be a ton of fun in my opinion. You're not playing as many hands, but you're almost always getting odds to draw to straights and flushes, and you can semi-bluff those when you back into a high pair. This confuses the hell out of the weak players at the table, who decide you're drawing badly and showing down runner runner winners and middle pairs because you're a loose player. The players sitting scared in between the drunk raisers won't respect you unless they're also counting pot odds and outs, and your image will let you charge them too in the few hands the raisers pass on.