At lower limits it's very important to remember you should be shifting your aggressive action postflop. You need to be more passive without a made hand. You should be limping a little more preflop with unmade hands like KQ suited in mid position for example. Also, you should limp with a lot of connectors and small pairs. Call reasonable raises with your pocket pairs because you WILL take someone's stack with a set.
The point I'm getting to is this... Since you WILL get payed off on made hands, there's no reason to be aggressive without one preflop. You're just going to get called by 5 people, miss the flop, and lose whatever you raised preflop. Why not just limp in, wait until you have a good hand, and bet hard? When you're sitting with a bunch of loose passive players, it makes no sense to do anything else. They'll pay you. All your equity is on the other side of the made hand.
Don't gasp when I tell you this, but at a very loose full ring I will actually limp with AK unsuited if I'm not in late position with a lot of folded hands before me. Sounds wrong hugh? Well the action you will get postflop makes up for the value and isolation you desperately fail to achieve preflop. Trust me you're not gonna isolate enough to make it profitable, so don't even try.
People make the mistake of losing money on raises into inevitable family pots at a loose table. All you're doing is building the lottery for whoever flops hard. Stop doing it. Camp and strike. It's not real poker down here yet. You'll learn how to play real poker when your bankroll permits it.



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