10nl Extracting maxium profit from favorable table.

[davisrei]

Last night I found myself at the type of table that I dream about, in a position at the table that was very favorable:

The table itself had shown a willingness to play for stacks on the basis of top pair alone, with a fair amount of raising with questionable holdings.

Acting just before me was an aggressive player, with a stack of about 400bb. He had pushed all-in against a paired board with unmatched JJ in a previous hand, and was quite aggressive.

A few spots after me, I had a calling station, who had gotten VERY lucky calling a pre-flop all-in and call with J-10o, which had gotten him about 250bb from sucking out on the three way pot.

I'm sitting in the middle with a little over 100bb, just knowing that if I can play the table right, there's a LOT of money just waiting to flow my way; it's just a matter of patience and time.

So...My question is, what is the optimal strategy for extracting value in this kind of situation?

[MadMojoMonkey]

Same as always:
Don't bluff calling stations
V-bet as much as you can
Implied odds are probably sky-high, so a wider range from each position is going to play well.

Don't over-value your starting hands. You're widening up with speculative hands and you need high SPR's going into the flop to realize the EV on those hands.

[davisrei]

Thanks Mojo, that's pretty much what I thought. I went with the "head's you get a quarter, tails I get your stack" line of thought, and played more speculative hands cheaply, folding quickly if I didn't hit or get the right odds to chase a draw. I also devalued cards like A-10o because I couldn't get a good read on whether I was ahead or behind in that situation.

I managed to double-up against an unknown fish before running out of time around midnight.