Hey all,

I'm a tight player. I consider myself tight-aggressive when at a large table, only decent hands or better and playing the sack off them when I get them. However playing recently with a couple of my friends together in a 10 handed ring game, my playing style came under fire. One of my friends plays alot of hands, often playing garbage, chasing straights, etc, and gets very lucky on drawing out once or twice before going broke, often in multiway pots and ending up the night with more money than I.

Rather than take the satisfaction of knowing that i'll make more in the long run, i've had to hear about how weak my style is, throwing away 80% of my cards. So, I've challenged them both to a private 3 player table.

Thing is, I'm good enough to know I'm going to seriously need to shift gears and open up my starting hands, but this is only going to put me on par with Mr. Agressive, and the other player is a passive rock that will nail me if I get too agressive playing garbage.

Is there any advice that you can give as to how best to play 3 handed against a rock and a hard-player? I'mnot sure what my comfort zone should be when I get 10-7 and the like 5 hands ina row and cough up my blinds again and again.