Re: Why play short-handed?
I'm sure gilfwulf would agree with me that table selection is of the utmost importance. Your profit in poker comes from your opponents mistakes. The more mistakes they make the more profit you get.
Imagine these 2 tables:
Table 1: Its you vs 5 mediocre tags that you are better than, but they are still tight and dont have any huge leaks
Table 2: You sit to the direct left of 2 huge fish (think 50/15/1 and 40/30/3). The rest of the table are tough tags who know their way around LHE SH very well. You arent sure whether you are better than the tags or not, and you estimate that you are slightly better than 2 of them and slightly worse than other 2. Fine, no problem.
Which table do you want to sit down at? THE TABLE WITH THE FISH OF COURSE.
Just imagine every gutshot the fish peels on the flop headsup without odds. Now add every gutshot they peel on the turn without odds. Wait theres more? they have pocket dueces and they want a set? And they dont fold on the river ui even? Hey, the fish gaybet th paired board flop with 9 hi and bet all the way and you instantly saw through that bs?
The fish beside you give you a ton of extra profit
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