I'm at a crossroads with my poker strategy. I don't live anywhere near casinos, so basically I have to wait till I'm around them to play. I like live play better, but I do awful live. I have a good grasp, or at least I thought that I did, of strategy and fundamentals. I do my best to play a tight aggressive game. The most common games I have played in live tend to be either 3-6 or 4-8 limit. I don't have a huge bankroll, but It seemed like the the standard amount of chips were between 100-200. I bought in for about 150. I know the common thought is to buy in for 100 times the big blind. I didn't really want to spend that much, and I wanted some more live experience. Plus no one had more than 200 at the table. My point is that there were some decent players there and some awful ones. I played pretty conservatively I played hands that were good drawing hands, when I got them, cause I knew the inexperienced guys would pay me off. The overall theme I am getting at is that I didn't get good cards most of the two evenings I played. I was doing like a good boy should and was putting people on hands, but when a guy is playing a 2-10 offsuit out of position this is quite hard. I'm sticking with the game plan of beating the low stakes before the high ones, but how can you beat guys like this when the cards don't come. I would wait for my moments, but before long I was basically out of money, or had very little left. I'm not judging my experience from these two nights. I just thought that I was playing solid poker, but was still unsuccessful. I knew the guys at the table that I wanted to be in hands with. He would play every hand and any pair to the end. I just couldn't get the good cards to play big pots with. Am I wrong in my analysis of when there are idiots or maniacs at the table tight aggressive is better, cause loose play certainly prevailed at this weekend trip.