In these loose, live games, I've been playing my draws really passively. I think that is generally the right strategy because a player typically has little fold equity and will often get paid off when he hits. Maybe this is just me not hitting draws and it affecting my game, but I'm considering playing FD's in particular more aggressively. A common situation is that either someone will raise to 3 or 4bbs preflop and 8-9 players will call, or everyone will limp. Then someone bets somewhere in the neighborhood of 10bbs on the flop, which will get called by several players.

Previously I've just called in these situations. But there may be some benefits to making a big raise here and either taking down the dead money or getting called and having my draw essentially subsidized by the very large pot. It's pretty common to see 40-60bbs in the pot so a shove really needs little FE to be profitable, and when called loses only a small amount in EV and even two pair.

This might be a play to make sometimes in the right situations because:
  1. With a tight image, I might have decent FE (or not in this game!)
  2. It will help me to get paid off on good hands, good advertisement (isn't that important in this game, though)
  3. I might be able to get larger FD's to fold (it is FR where people play any two)
I think SD's are disguised enough to continue to play passively for the most part, as well as nut flush draws, but maybe an extra large raise or shove when there is a lot already in the pot due to loose calls would be a good thing to try or at least contemplate over the next few days.

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