I have a strategy question concerning an extremely loose O/8 limit game. The game is 4/8 with a half kill to 6/12. I am a very tight player and crush this game. There are usually 3 tight players who fold all but premium holdings and 7 loose players who play any 4 cards, even trips in their hand. However, when I am in early position and raise a premium like AA2x, A23x, or A24x with suited ace this generates some folds, so I generally flat these premium holdings in early position. Every now and then the situation comes up when one of the blinds raises with a similar suited AA2x, A23x, A24x hand to make the pot larger. Then these players go crazy betting a low draw if one flops even if they have no high draw. This often generates some folds from those who didn't hit the flop and also generates a lot of quarters or even worse when the low gets there.

Now preflop, once all the loose players have invested one bet in the pot they will never fold even to a three bet and 4 bet. Should I be three betting preflop with the premium holdings to:

1: Get more money in the pot from all the horrible players
2: Let the other A23 or A24x know not to go crazy betting a low draw after the flop if they have not hit a high possibility.

Insights into this situation are much appreciated.

Would this by chance be the Tunica horseshoe game??
I would continue raising premium hands to build pots knowing several donks will chase all and any draws.

Maybe you could post a few hands you were thinking of 3!? To help us provide more specific feedback

We have a game like that here in STL. I look for premium hands (A2ss with a Broadway card or better) to build massive pots. I also look for ways to see flops cheap on the button/lp with medium strength holdings. Play TAG and don’t be afraid to show a bluff from time to time.


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No, this game is at the Grand Casino in Shawnee Oklahoma

An example hand is I am UTG+2 with A23x suited ace, I flat in this position wanting more players to enter the pot with substandard draws and to bloat the pot. We end up getting a family pot and the big blind makes it 2!. I now have a super premium and want more money in the pot, I also don't want the big blind to go crazy with just an undinkable low draw or flopped low with no high redraw, as these 2 players often do when one comes and we get quartered. If the low flops and neither of us has a high hand we quarter the low and the all the money in the middle ends up making up for the quartering. The problem is, when the 2 card high 1 low or 3 card high flop comes. I have been 3! in this situation and all the players end up calling and the big blind 4!.

In terms of raw equity raise should be fine, and post-flop play should be relatively straightforward ; if you were not suited to the ace raise becomes a lot thinner
The x card is also relevant, 7 and 8 are mostly dead weight and will block your lo draws
As described this is a fairly straightforward value vs. Deception tradeoff since 3! Should make your hand relatively transparent as a premium a2 (even if you can have other hands at games with low skill level opponents are not likely to be thinking much beyond this)

Games where players routinely overplay nut lo draws are a good thing, its not hard to adjust our strategy to punish this
The 2 main ways are
1. Playing high-orientated hands more agressively and more of them pre-flop
2. Playing weak and medium-strength high hands with strong lo or lo draws more agressively