How do you play loose passive tables?

I'm used to playing online where the tables are generally tight with the exception of one or two players everyonce in a while being loose or just plain bad.

However at my local casino I was playing a $4/$8 limit holdem game and besides me there was one maybe two other solid players everyone else was just plain bad.

I only won one pot, two if you count the one I split.

In the split pot im in BB with K9o flop comes K72. I bet and get three callers. The turn is a jack. I bet again and get two callers. The river is a 2. I bet and get raised by UTG other player folds and I call. He has K3o and we split the pot. The other player commented, "good raise I had k3 also".

In the hand I actually won, and got paid off nicely, I was in small blind with 53 of hearts and I flopped a flush. My flop bet got called by several players and was called to the river by J4o (bottom pair and flush draw)

Bad beats included, me in BB with T2o and flop comes TT6 I bet and get 3 or 4 callers. Turn was 9 so I check fearing better ten or maybe straight or something but everyone else checks behind. River is queen I bet all but one folds who calls and turns over KJ for a straight.

AA second to act and i raise player a few seats from me peeks at his cards and his eyes lit up and he calls. Flop is 522. I bet he raises so I'm puting him on over pair of some kind but to play it safe i just call down. He has Q2 suited.

Last hand for the night I have KK UTG and raise. I get two or three callers. CO calls with 96o and BB calls 95o and they split pot when board reads 9948Q.

I saw many people catching cards with bad hands like T4o 82s 94s basically any two suited cards but i can remember 82 making two pair, T4o (from the button) making a wheel. T6 calling with bottom pair making trips on the river.

At a table this loose you cant except your pairs to hold up. You can against maybe one or two such players but when there are 3 or 4 calling down they are going to suckout much of the time.

So is it best to play alot of drawing hands suited connectors and such since straights and flushes seem to be the big money winners at a table like that. And treat AA and KK like a drawing hand (drawing to a full house)?

You should have won this hand
22KJ9 vs. 22KJ7

I almost always try to play the opposite of the majority of the table. So in a scenario like this your tight aggressive style was correct (EDIT: Always aggressive but tight or loose depending on table). However your level of aggression must not have been. If you are getting 3 or 4 callers with your raises then you are not betting enough. Don't play out of a book. Most of what you read and learn is meant to apply to a table full of solid players.

With most hands we want to isolate only one villain. Preflop betting is the only way to do that. The other players at the table will dictate how much of a raise it will take to accomplish this.

I agree with tosborn. You really need to be able to read your opponents and use position to your advantage. Sometimes i feel like you need more skill to play and win against bad players! (and patience!)

Yeah 4/8 isn't much better than 3/6 tables, the differance is just richer calling stations.

Position, position and position, tight aggressive and in this kind of situation you absoultlely HAVE to be able to read players. Punish them with bets and re-raises if you have the nut and fold anything if you think you're beat.

Patience, position and punish/fold, if you're luck is bad leave the table. If you are catching and winning don't relent or slowplay make them fear you with aggression. Can't emphasise enough though if you're losing on a 3/6 or 4/8 table, QUIT! There are so many calling stations and gamblers in these games that the luck factor is proportinately higher than in a game where experianced players are playing "correct" poker.

It's harder to read players on low limit vilotile tables, but it's a GREAT place to practice getting reads on players, tells and body language are more pronounced in the inexperianced, when you step up to higher levels what you learn here is less pronounced in the advanced player but sometimes just the smallest clue can give you a great read.

It's a limit game, not No limit.

Missed it. Sorry.

NO. PASSIVE PLAYERS GIVE NO IMPLIED ODDS. PLAY POSITION. STICK TO MONSTERS.

LOVE, JOOSE

how do you consider yourself better than the other players if you only won two hands?

i dont think that's a fair question, and I cant give a good answer considering that I dont know the exact win/lose ratio because I'm not sure how many hands I played.