Many of these principles and examples refer primarily to calling stations (9,1). The closer a player’s scores are to that extreme, the more likely he is to act, think, and feel like a calling station.

Calling stations do not play to win. They may say it, but even they do know that they do not mean it. They are so dominated by their passivity and desire to get along with other people that they take actions they know are foolish and leading to consistent poker losses.

Less extreme loose passive players have more self-control and flexibility. When dealing with a less extreme player such as a 7,3, you must be cautious in applying the above principles. You will still have to make the same sorts of adjustments, but you must use more judgment and expect a more effective and unpredictable opponent. You need to constantly look for stylistic variations and adjust to how he is playing now.

All loose-passive players are heavy losers. They lose more consistently than anyone, even the maniacs. Once people have identified a loose passive opponent, they will bet into him and raise him with abandon. They know he will call, even when he is clearly beaten. When he finally gets a hand and raises, nobody calls because they know what he has. Loose passive players have the worst possible combination: they give action, but do not get action, making them the easiest opponent to beat.

If either score is outside of the pattern (below 7 on looseness or above 3 on aggression), a player is outside of the corner labeled “loose-passive,” and some of the principles may not apply to him. He will be less predictable and harder to beat.

Since loose passive players share looseness and passivity with the adjacent comers, some parts of this section in the playing style map will overlap with the sections on loose-aggressive and tight-passive players. But they are worse players than these two types, and they are certainly the easiest opponents to beat at the poker table.

So if you find a loose passive opponent at your table, make sure to isolate him and target him in order to extract cash from him.

Of course wouldn’t you know it the cards only come at the $5 table. Of course, what is new? I managed to almost triple that buy-in. At the $10NL table I lost my buy-in when my full house jacks and kings lost to full house kings and jacks. But that happens so I did not get too pissed about it.

I bought in again and wasn’t really able to do anything with it. I had AA once but it folded around to me on the BB (hate when that happens). I also flopped quad 4’s and tried to slow play it and let the flush draw catch up but it never did and I only got like a dollar out of it or so.

All in all I ended the session up about $5

My biggest problem right now is figuring out how to get max value on my hands. I have figured out what bets need to be made to thin the field out. But since people can be playing anything – and I mean anything – it’s hard to know what to bet when you have a monster.

I did manage to hit my raked hands target so I should get my license for Holdem Manager, so that should help me keep track of my play much better during this experiment. It is important to use these poker tracking tools, and if you do not, your opponents will use them against you and massacre you.

I plan to sit down and log another session at Titan Poker this afternoon hopefully. Let the poker gods be with me.