Quote Originally Posted by LawDude
Quote Originally Posted by iopq
Quote Originally Posted by ProZachNation
The right play is almost always the opposite of your opponents.

Versus very tight players pf, open up your pf range and take blinds. Versus loose pf players tighten your range and take down big pots as they call you down.
I know it's 14 months late, but that's not how it works.

Tight players -> raise more often
Loose players -> raise less often
Aggro players -> tighten up
Passive players -> loosen up

in fact if you're a table with eight 50/10 fish (see: live poker) you might as well limp Axs and small pps
in fact, they're so bad you can open limp and show a profit
Yep. I was thinking of how wrong this is. For instance, against a maniac, if you can succeed in isolating against him, you can play all sorts of trash, because your +EV comes from the fact that you will bail out of hands when you are obviously behind and the maniac won't. So you can actually play loose aggressive against a loose aggressive.

Against a nit, it may be true that you can open up your range and rely on your fold equity. However, once the nit indicates that he has a hand, you have to retreat back into tight-aggressive mode and only play when you can out-nit the nit.

So it's way more complex than "play opposite".
Yeah, play opposite is retarded advice that keeps getting spewed around. Such general labels rarely apply well to whole tables and aren't even that great a description of a single player's game. It is often the case that Hero ought to open up and play more hands because of specific advantages, usually relating to weak-tight pstflop play from villain.