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« on: November 13, 2012, 04:54:14 PM »
What strategy do I use for a table like this?
I have hosted a small no limit hold em home game every month for the last 8 years. For the last couple of years we probably average 7 or 8 players and typically the same players each month. I’m by far the tightest player of our group. I consider myself tight/aggressive, When I’m in a hand I try to play it aggressive.
The problem is EVERYONE else is very loose. We played last Saturday and I don’t think there was one hand that didn’t have at least 4 people seeing the flop. Anything short of an all-in bet pre flop gets 4-5 callers.
No one seems to understand or care about position. There are 2 players besides myself that will figure outs and/or pot odds. As you can tell this is not a hard core poker group ( one player is my 76 year old mother-in-law ).
The typical game for me is try to stick around until there are 2 or 3 players left and then start to play more hands but by that time I am usually so short stacked that I’m just waiting for a decent all-in hand.
I have tried changing my strategy and playing everyone elses loose game but it seems like it turns into a luckfest (which I don’t like).
I have won 22 of the 100 games we have played but in the last 12-18 months it seems that as everyone has started playing looser and looser the wins have dried up ( 1 win in the last 18 games).
Whats a good strategy to play with a table like this? Just curious what other people thought.