Pooh-Bah Post: Table Selection and Regulars (Why Im not at ur tables)

[sh58]

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I don't agree that trying to find soft games would hurt your development at all. Exploiting weak players for maximum value is probably the most important skill you can have. A lot of regulars I see who play pretty well against other regulars refuse to adjust their game to weak players - they play their usual Tag game or whatever and while it definitely gives them an edge it's often far from optimal. They refuse to limp because limping is 'bad' - they refuse to coldcall because coldcalling is 'bad' - they refuse to play junk because playing junk is 'bad', and so on.

You can still learn to exploit regulars because you hardly ever get a table full of very bad players. In fact playing soft games with just one or two regulars is probably more helpful to developing skills because you'll have to adjust to the dynamic - looking out for regulars trying to isolate and 3-betting them etc.

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good point

i learn how to play against the regs when i am playing at a table with 1 massive fish and 4 regs. you get the profit from the fish and experience from the regs

[keikiwai]

on PS fish are easy to find

it's the [censored] brain dead mouth breathers with the [censored] [censored] BABY AVATARS... AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH they always suck so [censored] bad, and their avatars always tilt the [censored] out of me



but seriously, this is very important, i do it a lot, and i still get to practice playing vs regs quite a bit, since i'll often have position on a fish and some regs at the table too

i select tables where i have position on fish, and don't worry too much about where the regs sit, except for not having over aggros have position on me

i am constantly getting up from tables, finding new tables, and adding myself to waiting lists the entire time i play

[pureklas]

You should maybe added a few more guidlines like look for tables of 40%+ VPIP and only sit at tables with 2 other regs, maybe 3 if one is bad/exploitable and always try and sit to the regs left.

[carrotsnake]

its important, but its also fun as hell to wreck people!

[Noam Chomsky]

Great post.

Looking at the screen shot, one thing that I think you might not be taking full advantage of is the sorting ability in the PS lobby.

Myself, I sort by two things, (the ps lobby offers multi-level sorting) the % of players seeing the flop and the average pot size. I go to the top of whatever stakes and just wait. Table Alphara II in your screen shot I would think is a gold mine for example.

When the fish are all gone, I'll only leave if I don't think I have a significant edge over the reg but generally I'll stick it out for at least 5-10 hands cause fish love to do everything the easy way and as a result will just grab the first empty table on the list which is often yours in the default sort if you have only 2-3 people there.

[ajmargarine]

I have found that people with vegetables in their name are usually donks.

[goofyballer]

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Don't be one of those guys!!!111!1

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No, please keep being one of those guys and leave the fish to me k thx. Awful post. What were you thinking telling people to game select. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[BombayBadboy]

ya lol. I can't help but laugh when I see a bunch of 16/12 8tabling and just trading blinds

[keikiwai]

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always try and sit to the regs left.

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i've heard this a lot, but i think it's more important to sit to the fish's left

iow, if i have a fish on my left and a reg on my right, i leave

if i have a fish on my right and a reg on my left, i stay

[carrotsnake]

I've found people that can't believe they aren't butter aren't very good either