Hi. I'm new to poker (played about 3 months). This site has been very helpful to learn poker strategies and theories, so thanks to everyone that's part of it.

I play the penny tables on pokerstars, mostly heads up and 6max (working on reads). I started experimenting this week by coming in with a small stack (1/5-2/5 of buy in) and play loose/aggressive/stupid. I'd expect to lose my first buy in eventually but along the way have people start calling with bad hands. Then I come back with double the first buy in (close to max) and play a lot tighter for a little bit hoping to catch a hand and doulbe up before they notice I switched (which might take a long time). Or else if I make $ then I switch to tight.

I know a lot of you do real well by switching your style back and forth, but I have lost money consistently the last week (some from playing bad, but lots of bad beats after I play tight again) even though I won slow but consistently trying to be TAG all the time.

So I'm wondering if you think this is a bad idea, or if I am the right track but doing something wrong (like bluffing too much to get a maniac image when most people don't pay attention & would be calling my big hands anyway)