Myth #8: “You should play tight at a loose table and loose at a tight table.”

Not true. It is more complicated than that. First, lets examine what happens if we do that.

Playing tight at a loose table. This doesn’t cause any harm but we pass up many opportunities to take advantage of their looseness.

Playing loose at a tight table. This means that we are starting with a worse hand than everyone else. Not a situation we want to go deep with.

This myth is a bastardized version of: “You should steal more pots against tight players and value bet harder against loose players.” That is the correct way to say it.

At a loose table we should play more hands than normal and pick your spots to go deep. This allows us to take advantage of their looseness and use it against them.