Tight vs loose, loose vs tight

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Ok, everybody says to play tight at a loose table and play loose at a tight table. Well, what do you do when you are at a table with 7 TAG's and one LAG? If you loosen up, you know that one person is going to call your bets. Yet, you need to loosen up a bit or the blinds will go up and eat you. What do you do at a mixed table?
 
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Ok, everybody says to play tight at a loose table and play loose at a tight table. Well, what do you do when you are at a table with 7 TAG's and one LAG? If you loosen up, you know that one person is going to call your bets. Yet, you need to loosen up a bit or the blinds will go up and eat you. What do you do at a mixed table?

Play according to the players in the hand with you -- they won't all be in at once. ;)
 
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Depends a lot on stack sizes and position. Also depends on whether the players are aggressive or passive. If he is the loose aggressive type and he is on your left then you are handcuffed a bit.
 
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Most of the time, you won't have just LAGs and TAGs at your table. There will also be other types such as nits, calling stations, maniacs, etc. So if you're just using two labels, it's better than not labeling at all, but only the first step in classifying opponents. Plus all LAGs and TAGs aren't the same.

Poker is a highly situational game, so if you're looking for one size fits all answers, you won't find very many.
 
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