Loose-Aggressive Opponents
If those loose opponents also tend to get a little aggressive, the situation has changed a lot.
You’ll need to tighten up quite a bit. Aggressive players will be extracting as much as they can from you those times they’re best so you need to avoid those situations as much as possible.
You don’ want to entirely avoid them, you do want to go after loose players aggressively you just want to be more careful when they’re likely to be shooting back.
Against aggressive opponents you should tighten up, particularly with unsuited cards and with very low cards. Avoid very low pairs and unsuited hands such as A 
4 
.
When playing against aggressive opponents,you want to have hands that are likely to have a little something extra to fall back on.
For example, a hand lie A 4 and a flop like K 5 4 
has a little more going for it than a hand like A 4 and a flop like K 7 4 .
When your opponents are aggressive, that little extra can mean a lot by the time the night’s over.
A Maniac in the Game
Maniac players can be frustrating. The strategy adjustments you need to make when a maniac is in the game don’t always follows conventional wisdom.
That can be especially true in short-handed games. Conventional wisdom suggests that it’s best to act after other active players ,but that’s not always the case with a maniac in the game.
If the other players are fairly tight, before the flop you often can do better with the maniac acting after you, but before the tight players.
As an example, suppose you have a hand like 10 8 UTG and there is a maniac on the button with Q 10 .
If you open with a raise, and the maniac reraises, the tight player is likely to fold his hand. That leaves you with a situation where you’re heads-up with the maniac with a hand that dominates his.
If the positions of the maniac and the tight player were reversed, then the tight player would probably call your raise before the flop with Q 10 in late position, leaving you with a three-handed contest where your hand is the one dominated.
Pick the Right Table / Picking a Seat / Theories of Poker / Betting Theory: The Odds
A Theory of Starting Hand Value
A Theory of Flop Play: Counting Outs and Evaluating Draws
The Dynamics of Game Conditions / Table Image / Player Stereotypes
Women and Poker / Spread-Limit Games / Double Bet on the End Games / Kill Games
Short-handed Games / Tournaments / No-limit and Pot-Limit Poker
