uncertainty seat selection principle

[ILOVEPOKER929]

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What the hell is wrong with this table?

I can se 1 moron, 1 potential fish and one unknown who is likely a fish as most regulars will be in your DB.

This is a bad table on US sites?

What the hell am I doing at party then... [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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OinkisRight. Oops forgot to log in my OinkisRight gimmick account. I need one of those.

Take the open seat for sure.

-DeathDonkey

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you guys are seriously awful at table selecting.

granted, this isn't a question of sitting with 5 players that are all in the 26/15/2 to 35/25/3 range, but still, this table sucks.

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Table selection is for pussies.

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i love the irony of this statement.

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I know this thread is dead, but since nobody else is catching on to the irony I'll actually give a real answer, so here it is:

If youre playing 10k-15k hands per month this table is terrible.

If youre playing 40k hands per month this table is doable.

Oink's statement, "But selecting by your standards will have me play 5 hands a month." Is just pure hyperbole, and patently false.

Frankly Im surprised at how many tags dont get table/seat selection. They dont seem to realize that once youve reached the requisite level of poker competence, table/seat selection will now be the predominant factor in their monetary success, not their skill level.

This is kind of paradoxical becuz when we dont have all the requisite skills, acquiring these skills such as, basic preflop strategy, hand reading, bluffing, inducing bluffs, check/raising, mixing up play, etc, will be more important than table/seat selecting, yet once we possess all these skills, table/seat selection then becomes more important then the "expert" skills we have.

I think most tags who dont pay attention to table/seat selection believe that their skill level is more important than table/seat selecting and this is simply a delusion.