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Against loose opponents you should loosen up, not tighten up. You can play more hands profitably than you normally do.

Originally Posted by Fielmann

Against loose opponents you should loosen up, not tighten up. You can play more hands profitably than you normally do.

I'm not so sure about this. This is all very well and good if you're playing against one loose opponent, but a table full? I don't fancy taking stuff like A8o to a flop 5 handed, regardless how likely we were to be ahead pre flop.

If the table is full of loosy goosies, then I tend to play a range of hands that hit flops hard, so I want to see flops with pocket pairs, suited connectors and broadway. My big overpairs and AK are gonna be played aggressively pre flop. But as for loosening up, well I'm not playing J9o in MP just because others are doing so. Even if it's +ev vs the table, it still relies on a post flop edge to see that ev realised, and if I'm regularly at flop with marginal hands multihanded, then I'm not confident I have the required edge. If I'm seeing flops with a wider range, I at least want to be heads up or 3handed max.

So really my pf range doesn't change all that much, just my post flop strategy. I'll be making relentless notes at showdown, and using those notes to try to extract maximum value from hands I'm comfortable with, or to push loose passive fish off marginal hands that shouldn't even have seen a flop.

Originally Posted by Fielmann

Against loose opponents you should loosen up, not tighten up. You can play more hands profitably than you normally do.

The OP only has +/-40 bb. Under this kind of gamble, I rather play dice.