What to do when the table figures you out?

[marchron]

Perhaps it's an adaptation to my game I've yet to make. I seem to do better when a helpful loose-aggressive player unwittingly conspires with me to jam the pot when I have great hands and two or three donks call down with crap.

But when I can't make them all pay two or three bets to see cards, they are all getting proper odds. In this case, as it says in SSHE, their weak instincts just so happen to be the right play. Heads-up, this isn't a big deal; but if I have top pair against four or five others, I could be facing draws from all of them and implicit collusion allows them all to have a crack at beating me.

Rereading some of the relevant portions of SSHE, I suppose I could, as they recommend in some situations, forgo betting on the flop. If I successfully dodge a draw card, I can then hit them with a big bet, or maybe even raise someone just trying to take a stab at the pot.

I know that it's beneficial to me if players are chasing me with longshot draws, but the draws seem to be winning a little too often. I want to make sure I'm stacking the odds in my favor.