Difference in Big Bets between Known and Unknown Table

[Al Mirpuri]

Two tables, everything is the same except at one you know the players and their idiosyncracies (tells, betting patterns, starting standards, etc) at the other you have to discover this. Until you have familiarised yourself with the other table how many extra big bets will the known table yield to you as a winning player per hundred hands.

[SplawnDarts]

Question with no answer.

[bbartlog]

Really depends on how much attention you're paying and how good or bad the other players are, no? To my mind, the greatest gain will be against players of middling strength. Very weak players will tend to have glaring flaws that are exploited just by normal play (call too much, play crappy starters and so on), such that observing them will not get you that much more. Very strong players of course will mix up their play enough that finding edges against them becomes difficult, and the edges are small.
But anyway there is no definitive answer.

[bbartlog]

To give a more empirical answer based on my own play, I would estimate (wild assed guess) that at micro and low limit PLO8 (like $ 0.25 thru 1.00) I gain somewhere between 3-5BB/100 by knowing my opponents. Most of this comes from knowing who will sometimes bluff and who will never or almost never bluff.