Aggressive Games
Pre-flop raises in spread-limit tend to destroy any implied odds you might get.
You should play very tightly before the flop in an aggressive game.
However, if there is some raising before the flop, the pot is likely large enough to loosen up some on the flop, and you can play a few more marginal draws.
Often the maximum bet doubles on either the turn or the river in spread-limit games.
In these games you should especially loosen up some on the flop.
In an aggressive spread-limit game, you should usually play tighter pre-flop and looser after the flop.
Loose Games
In a loose game, it takes a fairly strong hand to open the pot if you’re first to act from an early position.
If the game is very passive and you don’t have much reason to fear a raise, you can sometimes call an early position raiser with drawing hands or speculative hands.
This is because the situation of two or three early position callers often tends to draw in late players with weak holdings.
The drawing hands, speculative hands, and gambling hands require progressively higher odds to be profitably playable.
Most of those higher odds come from implied odds-from bets on future betting rounds.
In loose spread-limit games where the initial bet is very small compared with bets on later rounds, these implied odds are often large.
Tight Games
In tight games, when you’re in late position and an early position player has called, you should usually only call with the dominating power hands.
When you only have one or two opponents, you need to play hands that have a fairly good chance of starting out as better hands.
That’s because you’re getting weak odds to begin with, and your implied odds with few callers are also low.
Pick the Right Table / Picking a Seat / Theories of Poker / Betting Theory: The Odds
A Theory of Starting Hand Value
A Theory of Flop Play: Counting Outs and Evaluating Draws
The Dynamics of Game Conditions / Table Image / Player Stereotypes
Women and Poker / Spread-Limit Games / Double Bet on the End Games / Kill Games
Short-handed Games / Tournaments / No-limit and Pot-Limit Poker
