Playing a v.loose table

corblimey

Last night I was playing at a table that had 5 of the loosest most aggresive players I've encountered offline a long time. Sometimes I play with 1 or 2 and they're controllable, but 5 seemed a bit silly. We didn't see about 90% of flops because PF raises were re-raised drastically (eg, blinds at 50/100, first raiser 400, second guy 2000, third guy all-in, something like 12000, fold fold fold). And not great cards either. One guy raised from 200 to 750 PF with a 63o. He was called and somehow pulled a second 6 on the turn.

It was funny when I was getting the usual nothing, and had no blinds to protect, but you were guaranteed a raise to steal your blinds, and you were guaranteed that no matter where the button was, if you opened the betting, you would be raised. It was different players each time, but the atmosphere at the table meant that someone was always trying it on. I eventually pushed with A7s, and got called by 46s, K3o and AA. The aces held up, but I'm sure the other 2 guys were still there long after I left.

I know there's no magic formula for this sort of thing, but has anyone got some tips for playing on a very loose aggressive table?

[Jackass]

There's not a lot you can do really...When it gets to be customery at the table, you should just enter into the odd throw away pot to be keeping up appearances and bide your time.

The advantage of being patent, and not afraid of losing a percentage of your chips to the big raises is that when your time does come, you'll win big, and continue to lose relatively less to give the impression of enetering hands.

It's tricky playing either extreme though..but as always (for me anyway) patience is the name of the game.

spaczed

personally I think the only way to play it is to play only pre flop.....and then only with an all in. In theory if people are playing too loose (as they must be if they are playing that aggressively) you can gain an advantage by simply playing as aggressively...but with tighter starting hands.

not saying its much fun though....does end up as a crap shoot really

Marq

waht tournament was this, and and at what stage?

corblimey

Yeah, I tried playing as tight as I normally do, but with the flops missing me most of the time and possibly hitting the guy who raised with 23s, I found it very difficult to remain in pots that were bet into me. With 20 minute blinds and very fast orbits (as I said, most hands didn't get to flop), my stack was being whittled away steadily.

Marq, it was just a regular casino tourney, and the aggresiveness was from the start, not even settling down too much after the freeze-out.