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

[nuggetz87]

while i table select a marginal amount, as my session goes on i like to stay at the same tables and get in the zone. then i get a feel for how the day is going for everyone, how they're playing vs. me, etc. then i can [censored] all over them.

[Panic__NL]

good post thanks!

[Shizzle12345]

alot regs suck anyway. if you got pos on some retarded 25/20, you can tilt him and take money of him just as easily as some 45/10 fish. Just dont tilt yourself (problem i have sometimes). But if the 25/20 runs hot against me i usually leave, because its pretty hard indeed to get your edge over him then.

[Dr_Doctr]

I have to disagree with you Shizzle - I think it's much easier to make money off simply bad players than bad regulars who are super-predictable but don't make plainly idiotic mistakes like calling multiple streets with second pair or bluffing into you when previous action suggests you clearly like your hand and are very unlikely to fold. I think most of a good player's winrate (at least at lower stakes and if they practice good table selection - which is the point of this thread) comes from exploiting huge edges against bad players and not marginal edges against predictable regulars - at least until you get to high stakes where really bad players are a rarity I'd imagine.

[pdoran10]

Some of these points I made become semi-irrelevant once you get past SSNL fwiw.

[Suwalski]

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Some of these points I made become semi-irrelevant once you get past SSNL fwiw.

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I think that tableselection becomes way more important at higher stakes, because the amount of good players that will be difficult to outplay increase, while the badplayers who always go broke with toppair decrease.

[ofishstix]

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the second you feel yourself getting emotionally involved and making angry plays, its time to leave the table.

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this is why you yelled at me so long ago. not b/c you were giving advice, but because you hated me [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[sg23]

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I think that tableselection becomes way more important at higher stakes

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Sure, but it's still a good habit to get into at lower stakes...recognizing good and bad tables is a skill that should be developed as early as possible. I just switched from minbet to NL and at least 1ptbb of my winrate has to be the result of rigorous table selection. 5 or 6 2x/1x/2+ regs playing against each other just baffles me.