Whether it's a true story or not, it does not really matter to me, here is Danial Negraneau's blog where he talks about playing in the dark. Aboug 10 paragraphs down.

http://fullcontactpoker.com/poker-journ ... m=&ucat=1&

I somewhat misunderstand your previous statement. My bad.

Still, I do not agree TT will be a bigger loser in the long-run than 76s in these games. It's easy to dump TT when there's a 6 to the flop and two overcards. It's tough to dump 76s when there's 6 to the flop and you pickup a straight of flush draw - you're still going to stay in there no matter how many bets back to you. With TT and that much action, there's not many cases you'll want to stay in. Even if there's 3 of your suit, you probably won't want to be calling raise after raise on your ten-high flush draw. The only times you would want to stay in with all that action would be when you have a set or full house or already.

Not raising JJ UTG in extra loose games is missing out on some money in the long run. The only time you should consider not raising a premium hand is when your raises are getting too much respect - i.e. everyone folds. That will NEVER happen in these small stakes games.

With all that said, I completely agree that you should loosen up at these tables. You have the odds to play so many more speculative hands and when you hit them, you are paid off tremendously to make up for all the times you miss.

Yes, TT will only win 25% of the times on those tables. Will it make up for the times it loses? Certainly! In the long run, it most definitely will.

I have a small sample size of 6k hands at loose .5/1 games, but all my premium hands have a winrate above 1.25 BB/100 and an average around 2.25 BB/100. My suited connectors are a mix of profits and losses. On average, I make 1 BB/100 with suited connectors.