How do youdeal with this type of table?

[Bobby Cannoli]

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yeah, beating really bad players sure is tough.

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I'm not sure this is really a fair comment.

I know all the arguments about playing vs. poor players (and I agree). But there's a huge difference between ring and tourneys. In ring, I can fold all day until a favorable situation comes up. Also, more people play limit ring than NL, so you can make more speculative plays against a bunch of maniacs, waiting for the right hand.

In a tourney, like the OP said, if you have a few hands that don't work out, you can become incredibly short stacked very quickly. Especially since most tourneys don't start you off with >100 BBs.

And as the OP stated, this was a big buyin for him. Sure I can brush it off if I get some cold cards at a maniac table, in a tourney that I play 5-10 times a week, and that the buy-in is nothing to me. I would hate to go to my first big buy-in tourney, and get stuck at a table like this >AND< simultaneously get crappy cards.

Obviously, if I'm getting good cards, this is EXACTLY the kind of table I want to be at [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Bobby