Table Selection Importance
I just started a year ago and still play off and on, but this site and these sorts of posts taught me a ridiculous amount so thanks.
So I just discovered table selection was a big reason I kept hovering at the 10NL level I was at, and I don't read about it as other (equally important) topics here. It involves a mix of important lessons (reads, patience, discipline) discussed in the above sticky.
This article explains it: http://www.flopturnriver.com/essays_...selection.html
By finding the right tables I make ridiculously more than just focusing on hand selection and pot odds and opening up a bunch of tables. This is obvious to experienced players, but to me it felt like a breakthrough. Now I search out tables with at least 2 big call stations and/or position on a total maniac, and my (usually) TAG game is paying off so much more than before when I only went to tables with large pot sizes. Anyway here's an extreme example from the last table I played:
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (6 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx
MP (Huge Call Station)/ ($3.60)
CO ($19.60)
Button (Another Call Station)/($15.65)
SB (Huge Maniac)/ ($41.70)
BB ($4.05)
Hero ($10.15)
Preflop (99.9999% chance of a pre flop raise here): Hero is UTG with K:club:, K:diamond:.
Hero calls $0.10, MP (Huge Call Station)/ calls $0.10, CO raises to $0.8, Button calls $0.80, SB (Huge Maniac)/ calls $0.75, BB calls $0.70, Hero raises to $10.15, MP =(Huge Call Station)/ calls $3.50 (All-In), CO folds, Button calls $9.35, SB =(Huge Maniac)/ shockingly folds , BB folds.
Flop: ($26.30) K:heart:, 8:diamond:, 3:heart: (3 players, 1 all-in)
Turn: ($26.30) 4:diamond: (3 players, 1 all-in)
River: ($26.30) 6:diamond: (3 players, 1 all-in)
Final Pot: $26.30
Hero has Kc Kd (three of a kind, kings).
Huge Call Station has 2h 9h (high card, king).
Button has 6h 6s (three of a kind, sixes).
Outcome: Hero wins $26.30. [/color]
