LOOSE AND VERY LOOSE GAMES
Dominated Power Hands
The dominated power hands gain some strength in loose and very loose games, but just as in tight games, these hands should only be played selectively if the game is aggressive or very aggressive.
Even seemingly strong hands such as A 
K 
should often be folded in early position if the game is very aggressive.
Such hands do usually play game well from the late position, however.
Drawing Hands
The drawing hands often become very strong hands in loose and very loose games.
They get odds needed and aren’t as likely to run into the problem of only getting action when they are dominated, which tends to happen in tighter games.
Speculative Hands
Speculative hands tend to have intrinsic value in loose and very loose games.
The speculative hands depend on getting a good flop, and in a loose game you’re usually getting the right kind of odds.
This is especially true for the suited speculative hands in loose-aggressive, loose-very aggressive, and very loose-very aggressive games.
hat’s because, when you do flop a strong draw with these hands in a loose game, then you’re almost always getting good bet odds on the flop, so that aggression on the flop works in your favor.
With loose players it’s not unusual to have four or five callers seeing the flop. In that situation some of the speculative hands, like K 
J , can have greater high-card value.
This is because, unlike the previous situation with four or five tight callers, loose callers are just as likely to be playing J 8 as A J .
A hand like K J is not nearly as likely to be dominated by the hands of four or five loose callers as it is by four or five tight callers.
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