Table Selection...What's your method?

[Paul Thomson]

It seems that levels in which Middle Stakes as well as High Stakes players frequent is quite wide. You'll see some of the same players that play as high as NL2000 sitting in a NL400 game. I assume this is because the games at NL400 have to be so much better than NL2000 at the time that it makes sense for them to sit. So I have a 3 part question:

- Assuming you have a bankroll for any level, what factors make you choose to move down multiple leves to find a table worth sitting? In other words, what makes your highest level games unplayable?

- What factors do you use to determine to finally sit at a table regardless of what level it is?

- Do you use any software or data mined sources, etc for this?