Title is: "Inside the mind of the "always aggressive"ring game player"

I'd like to hear some techniques from a person who aggressively bets in lower-staked ring games.

My tourney play is aggressive, but that's because I feel the need to make moves because of creeping blinds. I do pretty well there.

However, my low-stakes ring game technique is lacking.

(Low stakes being .05/.10 tables)

Why do I care about "technique" @ low stakes? Because I like experience. I've played max .25/.50 stakes, but I don't like to stay there, win or lose. I feel that I should be able to earn my bankroll @ lower stakes to foot my multitable tourney fees and to get me into the higher levels, without "buying" my way there.

Anyways.. Here it goes:

There are quite a few people I have played with and noted and they basically raise or bet very often. It throws me off... I don't know how to say it..

I play really tight. Chucking stuff like A5o even in late position. My tightness is because I don't feel the "need to play" anything, because of the lack of increasing blinds.

Yet, when I tangle with these people when I have a hand, I often get sucked out because they prety much call anything - or - I'll leave a pot with TPLK, often feeling like I'm folding the better hand.

I'm going to try going the "really aggressive" route for a few days. At the low-stakes, it's not close to risky for my BR..

But - I don't want to be "wreckless" even though these people seem VERY reckless and it seems to work against me (and especially others) sometimes.

So, what's going on in these guys heads and hands?

Do they autoraise QJo preflop in any position?

Is A(anything) something they raise also preflop?

I see their hands sometimes, because they'll get a short stacked tiltomatic to raise their preflop and frankly, there's no way I would even bother playing some of the stuff that these guys raise..


They seem to chuck out pot-sized feeler bets and then bet then next card pretty heavy, even when they get a call. They'll take the pot down, but you gotta wonder if they had anything, even middle pair..

Jeeze.. I don't even know what to really ask specifically. I'm just saying that these people play hands like it's head-up @ the end of a tourney. Anything seems good to them.

My patience pays off, and I'll often take one of these types down, but only after like an hour of sitting with them. And you know the deal, having monster hand against a betting and calling stations and having it blown out because they do not play pot odds - they just simply call if there's a "chance" regardless of how much they pay.

My biggest leak involves these type of people. The leak is that I'll get shoved off of a pot when I feel like I'm almost the winner, or I'll call the preflop raise, hit nothing at all but wtill have high overcards and the odds do not justify me calling.

I do not feel that this is sound strategy. I feel like they may steal a lot of blinds and get the lucky big pot suckout, or they may have legitimately great cards and the opponent doesn't beleive them, but over time, I gotta think that they will do big dumps vs. tight players w/ monsters.

What do you guys think.. ?? Is there anyone here that approaches these low stakes tables this way? What are you thinking when you raise .50 w/ k6s and the flop comes aj3 rainbow and you're betting like you hit top pair?

Thanks!

Disclaimer: I understand that low-stakes goes hand in hand with "terrible" play because of the very low risk involved - but I've seen this play on the .25/.50 tables, too - but mostly from Big Stack Jack.