At pokerroom where I play there tends to be like 20+ 50NL 5max tables at the times I play. I tend to look for tables where most of the players has $20-40 in chips and possibly one with a bigger stack, from my experience the players who dont rebuy back to $50 when they have lost a big hand are real bad. I actually think I have made the most money so far at the 5 max tables destacking the shortstacks. They give me huge implied odds, just like earlier today calling on a flush draw 1:3, pot being $8, then checkraise all in on turn all in and the shortstack calling with his last $20. The shortstacks make such loose calls, wich I think is great.

I also wonder a bit wich seat it is best to choose when sitting down at a table where I dont have notes on any of the players from before. What I do is usually to have the biggest stack at the table on my right so I have position in the possible biggest pots. If I had notes I`d obviously go for postion on the laggs and tighties to steal blinds from on my left.

How do you choose table and seat? And what do you think of my view of shortstacks? And I guess this is most suitable for low to mid-stakes, I guess there are not too many shortstacks at the higher levels?