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[geldar]

This is my first post, and actually I just started reading "Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time Vol 1".

I was playing a $5 SNG today and noticed a player in a lot of pots, usually limping in (very rarely raising) from all positions, and calling down most bets to the river, with an occasional raise on the river (what I appeared to be min value bets). Anyway it didn't matter if he had pocket QQ or 8To or what...the same thing...call, call, call/raise.

How do you play against this loose / passive / never get off a hand kind of guy?

I had him down to almost out, but I couldn't get him off a hand...he kept sucking out on the river and doubling up...eventually he knocked me out when he hit a flush on the turn to my two pair (despite my betting him the pot on the flop)...I was so small stacked it didn't matter, as the blinds were coming and well...I paid the donk off, what can I say.

Thanks and I look forward to future posts/questions/stories...

- Geldar

[Damien]

Welcome!

If he sucks out on you, than that's just poker. In the long run, he will miss his draws or overcards or whatever and he will pay you off. As long as you know that you were putting money in when you were ahead, you can't beat yourself up over it. If you know that he's going to call down no matter what, thats a pretty valuable piece of information. Let him have the small pots when you miss the flop and make him pay when you have a hand. You can't always avoid the suckouts, but you can certainly make him pay for the opportunity to do so.

[Zenjo]

How do you play against this loose / passive / never get off a hand kind of guy?

If you can never get him off a hand then don't try to. Just value bet big when you have a decent hand and he'll pay you off. The looser the player is then you can value bet weaker hands than normal since he'll call with worse.

When the Loose Passive wins it's totally reliant on having good luck, and that's why it won't happen most of the time.

[Radford]

Just play tight against him. If hes a poor player, he probably won't even know that your playing tight against him and just call and raise anything that you throw at him!