I need some help playing these tables more profitably. I used to be a 1/2 rock always looking for the action tables just waiting for cards to loot the LAGTARDS however I have recently seen the light and opened up my game a bit. Now these "action" tables seem to be more of an issue while im killing the softer tables with nits.

So tell me your opinions on how you want to establish your table image and some general strategy to approach these tables.

1/2 table, 2 overly aggressive players who don't mind mixing it up, both with roughly $500 on the table, will raise with bottom pair and call a reraise hoping to improve. Chase draws, multi street bluff, and have a total disdain for the value of money. 3 fish who just don't know enough not to 4 bet JJ pre, or how to fold top pair with a flush on board when its clear they are beat. 2 solid skilled players with over 500bb on the table, and 2 randomly rotating seats of players who never seem to understand what they got themselves into before they consumed by this table.

I'm watching $800 pots go all around the table, barely able to drag a few $40 pots looking for situations where I can hammer the overlimps and take it down with a C-Bet, most players folding when I actually do catch something. or having to lay down QQ when I raise and get 6 callers then monster action on a T86 board.

So I'm stuck playing mostly fit or fold with too tight an image to get action where I need it and cursing the poker gods for my card dead hands.

My new friend at this table is making sick reraises with K9 on a KQ8 board, picking up two callers, checking the turn, and taking it down with a huge river bet and I cant determine if im looking at some kind of genius or just looking for genius in a horrible ******ed cesspool.

Any opinions on how to approach this table (type), what image you would like to establish, and how you hope to use this image to be profitable is appreciated.