Leave the table?

[Black_Angler]

What you are talking about is just a simple version of a stop loss strategy. You've "already" made the money you are going to average so you just leave? One thing I have noticed about online play vs. live play is that players tend to hop alot more. This means that there might be a lot of fresh live money coming in pretty soon and as stated previously many times in this string the one orbit idea isn't a bad one.

I've also noticed that the action players love to run over a table, so they will often look for a tight table when it's time to take a seat. Moreover, these action players don't always know the difference between a tight aggressive player and a tight passive player, so they could easily confuse you for just another tight passy that they can run over, especially on a table full of tighty whiteys.

When I have a tight table like that (this goes for live play too but especially in an online environment where players hop around) I steal a few blinds here and there just trying to scrape up a little bit, and I wait. Sure enough, sooner or later, here comes Mr Action and I let him run me over a couple times, maybe toss out a few blinds. Sooner or later, this guy will make the tight players uncomfy so as some of them leave I obtain a seat that has excellent relative position (depending on my strategy). Then I begin to play back at him and pummel the poor sucker, which more often then not makes him tilt (especially on the lower limits) while at the same time makes the tight passive players that are left want to "stay out of it" which means I can go heads up an awful lot with a tilting loose aggressive player. Oh the joy oh the joy!!

The point is, sometimes, in an online environment you have to have a strategy for the table, not just a way to play the status quo but rather a way to play the evolving table.