This is again probably more relevant to B&M players, or at least those who often have familiar faces at the table.

Anyhow, tonight was rather unusual with a table almost full of unfamiliar faces, and I failed to adjust my strategy accordingly. The loose LP raises, to begin with, are really a move to make when your raises are getting a lot of respect. These guys were largely calling stations. I unfortunately had a slightly down night--largely due to being slow on adjusting, but in part also due to catching very few hands.

One huge problem was continuation bets, which I stopped making after a while. Had AK several times but never hit, and these guys had no problem playing KJ to a raise and getting very excited about their J as TP. So, I also had to lay down AK unimproved a number of times.

My thought on this in hindsight is really just that these continuation bets are by no means obligatory. If you get your 2 callers on AK, you're actually still in good shape for the raise, since you have a 1/3 chance normally (assuming no one else has an A or K) of hitting.

At this particular table, however, I'm not at all sure that the best strategy wasn't just to limp on pretty much anything and not raise at all, since there were several players who would routinely raise about any playable hand (QJ, etc.), providing a good opportunity to limp-re-raise AA, etc.

Basically, the whole situation drove home to me yet again that it's just not good to go into a table with preconceptions as to how you intend to play. A different table requires a very different game.

A bunch of good points mentioned there.

I had to change gears at the TAJ quite a bit when i moved from 1/2 NL to 2/5 NL. I had to play much more aggressively at 2/5 with marginal hands since they would actually fold to me. bigger pots were hard to come by.

1/2 tables were more about waiting for premium hands and sets since most players there were calling stations.

Excellent, excellent point Ais

I often have to stop myself from my usual continuation bets on the flop, etc. when I realize that he aint foldin. Period.

Same is true for pfr (in 6max world). It sucks IMHO but its the best play.

Ais,

Where I play live NL $200 3/2/2 blinds there is a player named Bob that almost never raises with AK. With AA he will usually make a $12 bet. He said that he had AA 5 times in one session and lost 4. Once to me.

I guess you have to know the table. One night whenever I bet I was re-raised even when I had a good hand. That happened 5 times and then I said enough and put the guy in. He had top 2 and I had top pair with and OESD - I missed.

I reloaded and went into my shell - I finally ended up ahead for the day.

On this table it depends on who is playing if you can make a continuation bet or not. One night a lady was there and was a 1st class calling station - she lost $1500.