I've just played 3 $10 games on Stars. Each of them had 2 or 3 guys playing 60-70% of pots, raising every one preflop and betting pot first in every time, then calling each other or anyone else who was in.
Every pot it seemed that one of the maniacs would hit their flush, 2 pair, straight etc and the maniacs had big chip leads and got even more aggressive.
My approach is to sit tight and wait for cards, then play hard in the hope of catching them.
1st game - lost a few chips folding TPTK to a reraise - wish i hadn't seeing the other moves the guy made later. Then sat tight until AK comes along. Raise 4BB pre, called by 3, flop KT4 rainbow, push, called by 2 of them and lose to a 64 when the river gives him a third 4.
2nd game - another early raise from a guy who's raising 25% of the hands. I call his raise with AQ OTB assuming he's got junk. Flop A52, he bets pot, I push to get rid of him and he calls with AK, I'm out.
3rd game - blinded down and down without anything to call one of the early raisers with. Try an all in from the SB to steal a blind with KQ when I'm running low, LAG in BB calls with junk and puts me out.
How do you play these very loose games, i just find them so frustrating I want to smack my computer when maniac after maniac hits his gutshot or pairs his terrible kicker. Am I right to push and hope or is there a different way?
Please help your frustrated poster with some wise words, even if they are "your poker sucks, take up snap"
The DonStatistics: Posted by donquixote — Tue May 10, 2005 3:53 am
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