Advice applicable to loose games?

[TJD]

Hi all,

New(ish) here. Love the discussion groups; a lot of useful stuff from obviously experienced players.

Some background might put my question into perspective.

I started hold'em about 6 months ago, read Jones, Carson, Krieger, Sklansky etc and played a LOT (too much?) in low limit (mainly $1/$2) games on line. The games were almost always loose and I built up a decent profit ($5000 or so)

I have not played much in the past couple of months, partly because of other things getting in the way and partly because of the fact that I was becoming bored with playing.

The fact that "proper" play has me folding so much PF and giving up on so many flops meant that on days when I got poor cards I was losing the will to live :-)

I have tried to attend to the boredom problem by now playing 2 tables at once at normally higher stake tables (up to $3/$6 occasionally $5/$10) and by only playing at tables where the number of players seeing the flop and the average size of the pot indicate lively (but not crazy) action that should be profitable.

Having been pretty much out of action for the past 2 months, I revisted this site with much more enthusiasm and was once again impressed by the depth of thought that goes into some of the discussions. The amount of effort you experienced players put into trying to read the hands of opponenets in order to save/make bets is very impressive.

However, (the question at last - hurrah!), is such deep thought necessary in loose low limit games or can it in fact be counter productive?

I could add more but I would prefer to let you more experienced folks lead the discussion in the right direction.

TYIA

Trevor