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I know you want a tight player on your left so you get to be last to act more. But at 0,5/1 most of the time I have one or two loose players to my left with stats like 60/10/0.4 who doesn't respect raises or fold much to cbets. My way of dealing with this has been to basically playing tighter and only cbet on really dry boards or when I think I have the best hand.

So how do you adapt when you have a seat like this? And where do you draw the line where you decide that you won't play on a specific seat because of the players to your left?

Select a better seat

Having 2 loose players on your left either means you picked the wrong seat or that the whole game is full with loose players?
The latter is more a luxury problem. I would advise you to always make a top 2 list of the best seats at the table. When the seat opens up you should jump to that seat.
Use the colours to label the bad players. Don't only judge how bad someone is by his stats but look at how many mistakes he makes by looking at his play.
You should also label maniacs and tags because they also influence your seat selection process.

If you have two fish on your left and all the others are good players, I really don't see a reason to stay at that table.
While you are playing you can also have the lobby open looking for good tables / seats at the same time.
I think good seat selection becomes a serious required skills once you hit the 3/6 level. It is good to start developing this skill early on.

I don't see how having 60/10 type loose passive guys at the table can ever be bad for you, regardless of whether or not you have position on them.

Yeah I should definitely start to use labels, now I just pick tables by looking at players/flop %, and don't really know how my seat is until I get the stats up. Good advice, thanks.

So how do you adapt when you have a seat like this? And where do you draw the line where you decide that you won't play on a specific seat because of the players to your left?

I'm pretty interested in this part of his question. of course the seat is not optimal but still with 2 very loose players at the table no seat can be really bad I think.

How do you adjust to two very loose players at your left? Do you tighten up when they're at your left, attack relentlessly when they're in the blinds and you have position, or do you open up to get in more pots with them and value bet them as soon as you spike a pair or a good draw?

I have the problem with people who are too loose as well, as soon as you check back to them they start betting or when you have AK on a dry board they call you down etc with a pair of threes... How do you adjust to having very loose players to your left?

I'm pretty interested in this part of his question. of course the seat is not optimal but still with 2 very loose players at the table no seat can be really bad I think.

I kinda disagree with this. If we have two or three competent TAGs/LAGs to our right then we aren't going to make enough money from these super loose players when we have an advantage (i.e. strong hand or position or both) to compensate for all the times we don't have the best of it. the guys on our right will take most of their money.

The "Kinda" is dependent on how aggressive the loose players are. If they are very aggressive, I definitely disagree with the statement. If they are really passive, it's more of a "meh".

with 2 very loose players at the table no seat can be really bad I think.

I think this really depends on what other seating possibilities there are available. Probably in the 0.5/1 games there are many better spots at different tables were you can have position on a fish.
If you are playing high stakes you are lucky to see a fish at all so you should accept having them on your left until a other seats opens

I think this really depends on what other seating possibilities there are available. Probably in the 0.5/1 games there are many better spots at different tables were you can have position on a fish.
If you are playing high stakes you are lucky to see a fish at all so you should accept having them on your left until a other seats opens

^^ yeah this. The adjustments you should make are to play just as many if not more hands preflop as normal (mostly more suited stuff, slightly less stuff like A4o open raising CO), but be more willing to check and call or check and fold on bad flops. You will get free cards from LP players, and its probably not worth it trying to barrel them when you miss, or hoping you are getting thin value with your king high or whatever all the time.