They won't think 'that guy raises all the time, I'm going to play back at him.' They'll think 'that guy is always raising, he could have anything, I'm going to check to him.' Low limit players are already way too passive, and by confusing them you make them even more so, which is great for you.Īs an aside, every once in a while these guys will do something incredibly ******ed because they are sick of you raising all the time. Your opponents will be really confused by your play. In most cases, raise in late position and bet any flop, but shut down if called.

Now of course you aren't really a maniac at all. And sooner or later, and probably sooner, you're going to show down one of your awful hands and you will be labeled a maniac by the clowns who don't even know what position is let alone how to account for it. Make the pot bigger because you're going to make way, way better decisions then your opponents and the positional advantage is huge. Bunch of limpers to you on the button with Q8s? Raise. The Golden Rule: Play as many pots as possible in position. When you confuse opponents at this level, and they are very easy to confuse, they will make HUGE mistakes against you. They are playing lots of pots, and they are playing very aggressively. Think about when you see people with huge stacks in these games - the 6+ buy-in stacks. The way to crush these games is through the relentless use of position and aggression. So you'll only make big scores by coolering people or having a total maniac/idiot sit down. Even the idiots in these games will peg you as a tight player, and you won't get paid off enough. And while you will make money playing this style, you won't crush the game. If you're like me, and you're on this site so you probably are, you started off in NL thinking that a standard TAG style was the way to get the money. I played almost every day in 2004-2005, but have since gotten old and boring and only play 3-4 times a year.

I've been playing in these games since they got popular in about 2004. So I'll try to give back by outlining how to crush live 1-2 and 2-5 holdem games. This forum has given me lots of help over the years, both with poker and life.

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