[Dissolved]

OK, my poker group had a friendly but very loose .50/1 cash game tonight. The players there are a mixed group, mostly horrible calling stations. Im curious on some of your ideas on how to play decent in these types of games?

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about 6 hours in my friend gets AA and there was a bunch of limpers. he desides to go allin for about 100.00 or so. (next highest stack was 46 or so). this moron guy thats called every small and big rasie all night calls with KJo. flop AQxx10. you know who wins.

Im not asking for advice on the hand above, but in gernal of some ideas on how to last/win in a good amount of hours playing very loose but friendly games where its low stakes but the bank usualy ads up to around 200-400 after 4-8hours.

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[ACE'S FULL]

Originally Posted by Dissolved

OK, my poker group had a friendly but very loose .50/1 cash game tonight. The players there are a mixed group, mostly horrible calling stations. Im curious on some of your ideas on how to play decent in these types of games?

ex1:
about 6 hours in my friend gets AA and there was a bunch of limpers. he desides to go allin for about 100.00 or so. (next highest stack was 46 or so). this moron guy thats called every small and big rasie all night calls with KJo. flop AQxx10. you know who wins.

Im not asking for advice on the hand above, but in gernal of some ideas on how to last/win in a good amount of hours playing very loose but friendly games where its low stakes but the bank usualy ads up to around 200-400 after 4-8hours.

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I think the best thing to do in these types of games is to play uber tight and wait it out for a monster hand....

[Dissolved]

Originally Posted by ACE'S FULL

I think the best thing to do in these types of games is to play uber tight and wait it out for a monster hand....

Sounds good, But I played roughly 8 hours and I had one pocket pair (33), AKs once, AJ twice, and i had Axs a few times. You can play tight as a rock, but i was short stacked when i had those hands and i rasied 3 and 5x BB and id have min 3 callers everytime and miss the flop.

But I had no luck. I ran dry. But I don't care. Im just honestly wondering how you guys would play games like these, and if you have any tips for loose games.

[Wylecoyo]

I play a fairly loose game every week and the only way to win consistently is to be disciplined - I fold rags, wait for good starting hands, and when the flop hits my hole cards I let the crazies at the table give me their money.

Yes, random luck will pay them off from time to time, but I do tend to either break even or cash big with this method.

[Dissolved]

I played tight mostly cuz I had no hands. There wasnt much I could do. I only lost 55.00 for 8 hours of play with a few breaks after busting my 20buyin. was fun tho since I haven't played with them in months.

[Poboy]

Play by the book poker. Except raise more than 3x preflop. 5 or 6.

[Dissolved]

Originally Posted by Poboy

Play by the book poker. Except raise more than 3x preflop. 5 or 6.

I rasied 3x BB with AKs and only 1 guy called with 86o and flopped trips. So when you play bad players Its hard get away from beats that just sicken you.

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Originally Posted by Dissolved

I rasied 3x BB with AKs and only 1 guy called with 86o and flopped trips. So when you play bad players Its hard get away from beats that just sicken you.

I hosted a game last night with similar outcome. Its difficult when you have preimum starting hands and craizies get lucky every time. We started with $25 playing $0.25/$0.50 NL Holdem and in 3 hours I only ended up with +$8... I played real tight folded mostly and when I would get preimum cards I would miss every flop and the ones I would hit manic would hit better cards... I feel your pain... All you can do is play tight cause when you hit a hand more than likley you are going to get paid off....

[BrettButter]

The game that you are referring to is exactly the type of game that's at my house when I can get people together. Most of my friends who play poker are juniors/seniors in high school, so you can throw them playing by the book out the window.

The worst thing you can do is try to bluff someone off of a huge pot. While you can probably get a good player off of top pair good/top kicker, these people will NEVER fold top pair. Never. There could be a four flush and two more overcards on the turn and river, they won't fold.

Try to play small pots with bad hands, and play big pots with monsters. Roll the dice and take a chance that your big hand will stand up. If you can't sit around and wait, try limping in with suited connectors, small-mid connectors to try and hit. Limping with any kind of mid-high King or Ace will probably get you buried, since these players like to play any high card with ANY other card. They'll hit two pair more often then you want to believe with things like K-6 or A-3.

Also beware of draws. If you're in a situation where you know they're on a draw, put your money in. If you're the favorite, the odds will catch up. You'll win more big pots in the long run against idiots drawing to flushes and open-ended straight draws with no pot odds. They like draws, because they're pretty.

I'm not a master poker player by any means, but this is how I play in my games (smaller stakes, but the same kind of players) and I usually end up about 40-50 big blinds up. Good luck!

[jojobinks]

you want to play tighter then the loosies, but if you play really tight you won't get a chance to play any pots. you do want to play speculative hands, especially if there are a lot of multiway pots. in these games your top pair type hands (two big cards) will be worth less and your small pairs and suited connectors are worth more (b/c when they hit they'll stand up against multiple opponents).

the big problem as i can tell is that you're playing .5/1 with a $20 buyin???

if that is really the case, then you're not getting implied odds to speculate. in that case, i'd revert to the ed miller shortstack strategy...but what's the point? that just seems goofy/boring. with a $20 buyin the blinds should be much smaller. i have played a game where everyone wanted to play those blinds. then we just used .05/.1 (thank god for the red faux clays).