What i don't get at all...

This may sound a little counter intuitive... but shouldn't the tables at 100NL with a $6 avg pot be fishier than the tables with a $20 avg pot? The thing is, no one who's any good is going to join a table with a $6 avg pot.

I was checking them out just now and a lot of them had all full stacks too. And these were full stacks that i had never seen before.

Am i just being retarded? I usually choose my tables based on Avg pot and players to the flop...

Aren't they all tables filled with nits?

sounds interesting... prob straight forward weak-tighties. Go laggy?

ive thought about tihs before too. like if a table is full of loose passive fish the avg pot is going to be small.

i think i'm gonna try it for a few days and see how it goes.

Hi Massimo, how do you usually select tables? Have you always just played on ones with the highest pots?

Originally Posted by cadmunkey

Hi Massimo, how do you usually select tables? Have you always just played on ones with the highest pots?

Standard is high % to flop (>40 is common for <100NL).

A high $/pot but low % to flop could have been one big hand.

I sit at the high % low $/pot frequently at 50NL. Often the table tightens and breaksup if I start raising pre-flop. The ones that don't are usually gems.

I find that by and large I play better and do better on weak-tight tables where I can be the person who controls the table. Big pot tables tend to stretch my own weak-tight tendencies to breaking point - I simply can't deal with being raised and re-raised on almost every hand I play.

hmmm maybe ill rethink my table selection... yeah i do highest avg pot but with this new insight about weak avg pot being filled with just a bunch of passive guys is probably a good idea. I'm gonna try % to flop.

I've always used highest players to flop%. I could stand to find some new ways of selecting tables. I'm pretty good at getting off tables that suck. But finding new ones has always been hit and miss for me.

% of players to flop with medium-ish size pots is best. Fish arent going to play big pots.

Best is Huuuuge avg pot and huuuge flop percent as this is usually one guy playing almost every hand and the rest of the table loosening up to take advantage.... just use position and this is the most profitable type of table.

However of they avg pot and %flop stats %flop is waaaaay more important. Any table with 35% or more avg vpip is incredibly exploitable regardless of the avg pot size.

Maybe the worst decision is sitting in the high avg pot and 15%ish vpip as this will be populated by regs and nits constantly 3betting each other, and potsize is usually inflated by one big move or a couple big hands.