Quote Originally Posted by biondino
I think the key point is that if you're playing "correct" poker (however it can be described) and the villains are playing badly, "incorrect" poker (small/min raising, chasing draws, playing any two suited, calling down with marignal hands), the number of times they suck out on you with an unlikely or stupidly played hand is vastly outweighed by the number of times you take their money when they, say, call down your pot size bets on each street with A4 on an Axxxx board.
this is true, but we tend to only remember the times we get sucked out on. we wonder, "how come my bankroll is growing when i am taking all these bad beats?"

and i think that "classifying" players into types is a very good practice to follow at low stakes ring games, too. i think OP made comments regarding to MTT's, but the same can apply towards ring here.