Re: What makes a great cash game player
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Aside from that, there's one easy way (definitely not infallible) to spot candidates for good cash game players: big stacks. I've seen very good players, though, with short stacks, and very bad ones with big ones. But most of the time, the big stacks are better players.
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This has not been my experience at all. Generally a player with a huge stack is usually a LAG on a rush. I wouldn't expect a good player to have a tiny stack either (its not optimal to play with less than 12BB), but the truly ginormous stacks are rarely the experts.
I think part of what makes poker so profitable is that its not easy to spot the good players. At the lowest limits its pretty straightforward - just look for the tighest players at the table, but as you go higher its gets tougher and tougher. I played for hours once against this dude I thought was s drunken lag... after giving him a whole bunch of my money I realized that he was actually a very good player (although he *was* drunk). The table has gotten short and most of the other players were reasonably tight. He had simply adjusted appropriately but did it in such a way that we never knew what hit us.
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