Home Game Strategies: Loose preflop, TAGG postflop

[IowaSkinsFan]

I was thinking about my home game. It's $10 buy in initially, then buy in max is the highest stack (discussed already). It's usually really loose preflop and post, with a few really aggressive people.

I like playing TAGG, in online that's how i play. Pretty freakin tight. But in online i four table. In the homegame, i find myself being very bored. I know there are ways to build patience, but i find myself throwing away $2 opr more sometimes just because i want to play a freaking hand and "outplay these idiots."

I'm not really playing my homegame to make a lot of money (obviously, it's $10 buy in). But i don't want to be losing it because i get so bored.

So i thought of a strategy that'd allow me to play more hands, and it was reinforced by seeing a player at my home game, who happens to be a pokerstars $2000 player (poker is his profession, makes 6 figures) named Lyric (both his real name and online name). He was playing with us and actually played more than half his hands if he was in somewhat decent position.

$10 buy in, he obviously could care less about losing or winning money. But his strategy consisted of bluffing in certain spots, and when he hit two pair or better, he'd try to figure out when and if someone would call an outrageous bet ($30, essentially putting everyone all in) and make that bet.

With my home game, people are just terrible at reading people unless they've showndown. And even when they see someone do the same thing over and over again, even seeing them showdown, they still are oblivious.
Everyone, in general, is a bit of a calling station.

This is essentially what i'd do. Play a lot of connectors (suited or unsuited), play premium hands (of course) and try to stack people. Obviously i'm not describing this strategy with too much detail (i'm still trying to figure out exactly how to play with it).

I just wanted to hear your guy's thoughts

[Pelion]

Thats how you should be playing if its loose and passive preflop. If theyres alot of preflop raising going on then just wait for a hand.

[IowaSkinsFan]

It is loose and relatively passive

[Lukie]

I assume that is lyric from 2p2... and obviously that's not his standard game. He may be laggy or whatever, but you have to understand that 2k multitablers who may be getting 500 hands or more in an hour at $10/$20 blinds are going to play different live when they are getting maybe 30 hands an hour when their entire stack is $10...

[IowaSkinsFan]

Haha no it's not his standard game, at all, i didn't think that. It just seemed to work.
what's 2p2?

[Lukie]

twoplustwo.com.. there is a frequent poster there that goes by the handle 'lyric'. I guess I just assumed it was the same guy.. probably is.

[IowaSkinsFan]

Yeah it is. He has a Girlfriend who lives with him named Mango. Mango, no joke.

He went to the same High school as me, we are years apart though.