re: Texas Hold'em Question: How Do You Adjust When Playing With Chasers?

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just seeing how reckless the guy was playing, its was if I was waiting for a high pair then play him on the odds. Or at least have a decide pair and see if I get a 3 of a kind of the flop or something.

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you don't need a premium hand to play back at a loose player. "play him on the odds"? if you want to talk odds, then odds are he doesn't have anything most of the time, so you should be playing back at him with weaker hands than you would against a tight player (like you) that waits for premium hands.

look at this chart:



at the bottom, it says junk and pair. half the time, you have nothing. 90% of the time, you only have a pair.

so you've over here letting this dude scoop every damn pot when half the time he's got nothing, and you're not even playing back at him when you have AQ.

here's the kicker...once you finally DO play back at him, he's just gonna fold. he knows you're waiting for AA to finally get the balls to make a move, so once you do, he'll just fold his 9-3 this one time, then keep picking on you until you sack up again.

he's playing you the way you're supposed to play scared money, but you need to play him the way you're supposed to play loose money.

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Well I guess I suck at poker

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yea, maybe so.