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Old 05-17-10, 07:58 PM
Offsuit27 Offsuit27 is offline
 
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Beating Loose Passive Tournaments

The majority of the tournaments at the local casino are very loose passive unless of course someone picks up a monster. I recently had a dispute with another frequent player about how the best way to play these weak tournaments. The sides of the argument were to A)be a flopaholic early limping with many hands and exploiting when you hit the flop big and trying to accumulate a big stack early gradually getting more aggressive as the blinds increase or B)playing tight early and waiting for good opportunities to get paid off on your premium starting hands and basically just playing good hands and raising when you enter a pot until late in the tournament.
I'd like to hear some opinions of what way would be more profitable or maybe some insight on how you beat a weak game such as this.
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Old 05-18-10, 04:28 AM
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Actually, I have thought about this question before and the conclusion that I came to is that the two styles are not mutually exclusive. You can still be a flopaholic and play "tight". Let me use an example.

According to "the book", there are certain marginal hands that you can play in late position that you can't play in early position. For example, 10-8 suited. This is a drawing hand that you would play only if you know you can see the flop cheaply with. So according to the book, you would limp in late position, but fold in early position because someone could raise after you limped.

The thing about loose passive games though is that you can play loose in early position because many times you will know that no one will raise behind you (because the game is passive).

As far as how loose/passive games will dictate your palying style. . .

Loose games will dictate your pre-flop play. With regard to looseness, the question is not whether or not I should play tight vs loose, the point is to play the hands that do well against large unraised pots (pairs looking for sets, suited connectors). Realize that you need to raise in order to get more money in the pot (value betting), and not to cut the field.

The passive aspect of the game will dictate your post-flop play. Here, you will have to play classic Super System style, that is, use your position and make a bet when everyone else shows weakness. If someone raises you then fold.

just my 2 cents
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Old 06-24-10, 03:28 AM
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Preflop raising against him should be done to get chips into the pot or to push out other players. Don't ever try to push this guy out except maybe on the river, because he ain't going nowhere.
 

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