loose pre-flop-raising

[beesnhoney]

heya ppl, new to the forum, lovin the rescources.
Ive been playing seriously for only a few months and i had astrange experience at a table the other day.

8 handed .10/.25 table i was playin at. All the players were donkeys and ridiculously loose. The preflop betting involved an all in raise 80% of hands. This was regularly gettin called with nothing although often there wld be one of them with some kind ofhand.
This meant any hand i was holding had to be good enough to go all pre flop or not play it.
any 1 with experience in this type of game?

[Andhrímnir]

Hey, Welcome!

I'm used to the super-nitty Stars 25NLFR so I don't have any experience regarding a table as loose as that.

Anyway if your opponents are literally pushing every hand pf, then I would recommend that you open up your calling range versus them.
If we for instance say that one of those donks pushes and everyone folds, you can call pretty liberally, if you know that he's been pushing a few hands too many pf. I can't really tell how loose your call will be, I'll leave the calling ranges to the senior members of this forum, as I'm still learning alot myself.
There's of course some variance involved in this, but it shouldn't be a problem if your properly rolled for 25NL.

Where do you play btw?

[EricE]

Hey, Welcome!

I'm used to the super-nitty Stars 25NLFR so I don't have any experience regarding a table as loose as that.

Anyway if your opponents are literally pushing every hand pf, then I would recommend that you open up your calling range versus them.
If we for instance say that one of those donks pushes and everyone folds, you can call pretty liberally, if you know that he's been pushing a few hands too many pf. I can't really tell how loose your call will be, I'll leave the calling ranges to the senior members of this forum, as I'm still learning alot myself.
There's of course some variance involved in this, but it shouldn't be a problem if your properly rolled for 25NL.

Where do you play btw?

The problem I have with that is you have to worry about someone having a hand. Lets say one total donk pushes in front of you. You are on the button and there are decent players in the blinds such that if one of them calls you don't want to be in the hand. This puts you into a very tough situation. If you are the only caller you have a 90% chance of being good. If one of the blinds calls you are a coinflip.

I guess you have to pick out the people at the table you are worried about calling and hope you can get position on them at the right time (when they fold) and catch a hand there. This leaves you not really able to take advantage of the bad players much.

[beesnhoney]

thnx guys,
i play at party poker, tower gaming, full tilt and UB.
thing is seein as these ppl were so determined to see a flop - this was either by limping in if they could get away with it, but calling all raises and all ins aswell, turning it effectively into a crap shoot. This not only affects the importance of position during the hand but madeit difficult to decide on when and how to raise when UTG -any protocol in that situation?