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Old 05-20-2007, 10:59 PM
Whitewash Whitewash is offline
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Default Who is it more important to sit to the left of?

At a 6 handed NL hold em table, do you think it is more important to sit to the direct left of:

a.) the most aggressive, tough player at the table?
b.) the biggest fish at the table?

When I have my choice, I am unsure of which to do. Please discuss.
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Old 05-20-2007, 11:07 PM
SplawnDarts SplawnDarts is offline
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Default Re: Who is it more important to sit to the left of?

a) is probably self contradictory. the 10 most aggressive players in Vegas are broke.

That said, I want absolute position on fish and relative position on sharks.
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Old 05-21-2007, 07:57 AM
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Default Re: Who is it more important to sit to the left of?

You want to be gentle on the fish, you can sheer him many times but you can only skin him once. Let him sit where he likes [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].
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Old 05-21-2007, 03:13 PM
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Default Re: Who is it more important to sit to the left of?

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You want to be gentle on the fish, you can sheer him many times but you can only skin him once. Let him sit where he likes [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

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For aggresive tough players I want position, no question. I'm quite a nit so I don't want some LAG constantly putting pressure on me when I'm playing OOP.

For the fish, I would split them into 2 categories, sheep and fish.

Sheep are sheared, fish are gutted.

The sheep are the ones that lose maybe 10-20ptBB/100 and are maybe tight-passive/passive. You can take small bites out of them.
I want position on the sheep, where I can use position to force them to fold all their marginal holdings.

The fish who lose 50+ptBB/100 must be obliterated as quickly as possible as if there are any other decent players at your table, it's a race to get their money.
A feeding frenzy.

I want these uber fish sitting on my immediate left so I can squeeze any other players who try to iso-raise them.
If he's a complete fish, he won't know how to use his position advantage over you when it is you and him HU anyway.

I'll never forget the table I sat at with a total donkfish that raised 5xBB every single hand for about 2 hours. I was on his immediate left and I thought this will be like an ATM. But whilst the fish kept up his side of the bargain by losing about 5 BIs, I lost about 2 BIs.
The reason this happened was that the other players were able to hide the strength of their hands by limping, knowing that the fish was going to raise. When I iso-raised him, I often got squeezed by huge re-raise 4 bets.

So if I have a tough aggressive player and a total fish on the table, I ideally want the fish to be to my left and the LAG to my right.
My 2 cents worth anyway.
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