..you will get inappropriate calls from them more often than not, when you have the better hand.

I've taken a beating in some .10/.25 | .25/.50 ring games and I'm finding that my bigger leak has been trying to bluff (mostly semi-bluff that doesn't pan out) low-stakes players and getting called with hands you'd never expect someone to call with.

I've used this logic to have people make calls on me that were not very smart. K4 vs my KQ, etc.

It's fun to be LaGGy and aggro and push sometimes, but at the .25BB tables, it's just worthless sometimes. The value of the max buy-in is soo low that a big bet doesn't incite fear.. It's more like you are throwing yarn at someone. Yarn with a big steak on the end. They are starving mongrel carnivore squirrels who see it as a tasty meal, not a deterrent, so they BITE when you are thinking "HOW??".

Just my opinion, of course.

There's room for infrequent and good, strategic semi-bluffs at low stakes, but the LaGG maniac table image sometimes goes over like a fart in church because you don't get respect through fear, you just get a trigger-happy starving mongrel squirrel tangled in yarn and knawing at your ankles. You will step on them and sqash them, eventually, but dammit, it seems better to let them smell the bait and then be patient.

What do you think? I'm basically saying that you can do very good by just letting people bet into you / call you down / pay off your raised hands in place of most bluffing at lower stakes tables.