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Playing PLO when people are maniacs

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Berzerekki
Joined: 21.12.2012

Hey all!

What do you think about playing a session when there is too loose/aggressive players in the pool? Do you play when the action is super hot or do you pass?
I play -ev sessions when there is these kinds of players and for me it is a big leak. It feels like the whole game changes into gambling. Okay let me explain the situation:

Normally when there is more passive players around, you do an isolation raise against few limpers (+ usually one raise). Others fold. You play heads up with one of the players.

In loose/aggressive table there is at least 3 players post-flop and usually in all-in situation everyone has approximately 33% chance to win. Its not even a coinflip anymore? Even though you hit the flop hard. I guess the answer is to tighten up the hand range into 5% marginal and play really tight.

What is your opinion about these kind of tables?

Im playing microstakes atm, dont know about mid- or highstakes!


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efkay
Joined: 25.03.2005

Thats like complaining about fish that doesnt respect your raises and call. You should always prefer people that play too many hands instead of tight nits. tighten up your game and get it in as a dominating favorite when maniacs start gambling every hand.


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Kyyberi
Joined: 09.07.2010

Every strategy has it's weaknesses, that you can exploit. If opponent is too aggressive, you can exploit that in 2 main ways:

1: slowplay strong hands
2: play strong draws /vulnerable hands aggressively

The worst strategy versus maniac is to call with draws/medium strength hands and raise nuts. Easy for him to play against you.

First thing is to tighten up preflop. Second thing is based on the opponent(s). There are many different kind of maniacs. Is there only one in the table, or more?

If you indeed are in a table where 2-3 players are 3betting/4betting every hand and all flops are multiway, while people are just shoving hands postflop, all you can do is to wait for a good hand and enjoy the variance. But when you get it and stack 2-3 people, it makes the waiting worth it.


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