Ring Game Table selection

Just wondering what type of stats you guys are looking for when doing your table selection. The first thing that comes to my mind to look for is a higher plys/fl%, then avg pot. But I may be overlooking something.

Im playing Micro stakes .1/.2 usually at pokerstars.

Any advice?

if you do not have a more advanced software to table select for you (i don't, but i have seen people who do), the two you listed are pretty much it, if you play TAG. in my experience however, those tables tend to be a magnet for tight and weak-tight players, and in less than half an hour, the highest players/flop % go to about 13-17 (and then it becomes more profitable to play LAG and steal more)

More important than stats that change every 5 minutes is to put crazy loose players on your right, and your nitty reg type players on your left.

If I have a maniac on my left, and short stacking nits on my right I insta-leave the table.

So when you join a table, you'd want to look for a seat that has some full stacked bad players on your right. You want position on the easy money.

What C9 said and you really want most of the players to be full stacked at your table...nothing worse than sitting down with a bunch of short stackers. Also watch your table dynamics and if it changes get up and move to a new table.

benevg said:

if you do not have a more advanced software to table select for you (i don't, but i have seen people who do), the two you listed are pretty much it, if you play TAG. in my experience however, those tables tend to be a magnet for tight and weak-tight players, and in less than half an hour, the highest players/flop % go to about 13-17 (and then it becomes more profitable to play LAG and steal more)

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I dont have any software, but the more I read about people using it, the more intereted I get. But they actually help with table selection as well? Elaborate? Also I agree, the table seems to flucuate quickly, so it definately pays to adjust your play on the fly.

c9h13no3 said:

More important than stats that change every 5 minutes is to put crazy loose players on your right, and your nitty reg type players on your left.

If I have a maniac on my left, and short stacking nits on my right I insta-leave the table.

So when you join a table, you'd want to look for a seat that has some full stacked bad players on your right. You want position on the easy money.

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Now that makes sense. Good advice! Thanks!

eagle jim said:

What C9 said and you really want most of the players to be full stacked at your table...nothing worse than sitting down with a bunch of short stackers. Also watch your table dynamics and if it changes get up and move to a new table.

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c9h13no3 said:

More important than stats that change every 5 minutes is to put crazy loose players on your right, and your nitty reg type players on your left.

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BOOM! Do this^^^^^^^^^^

I've been playing the same limit on full tilt for 100k hands now, so i have all the regulars color coded yellow, the pro shortstackers color coded orange and the whales in blue, so i can often see how good a table will be just by looking at the colors.

Before that, you want a table where most people have around 80 big blinds. Because the regulars auto rebuy, so they have 100bb or more, and you don't want to play against shortstackers.

I find that i look for pf of between 13 and 20. These tables seem to suit me at smaller stakes. I tend to buy in for 100BBs and I want to build up a picture of the others before getting in big pots.

I have just started playing on FT with my small bankroll and trying to stick to my BR management, which puts me at the 2NL tables, which are absolutely terrible. I am used to playing at the lowest 25NL with on the other sites, but I'm trying to build up FT for my little challenge I have going on. My problem with 2NL is that I will try to go through proper table selection and find the juiciest tables, many times with it being very common to find tables with 70% seeing flops. The problem with going with these tables is that you cannot get people off of a hand, which is great when you have the nuts, but when you're trying to play a TAG style against that and you get one of your premium hands and no one folds to your p/f bets, it doesn't always work out. I can't count how many times I have had it when you get 5 callers on my 5xBB p/f raise with a premium hand, then the board won't help and they hit their hand by the end.

I am used to playing tables with about 35-45% seeing the flop being a pretty juicy table at my regular stakes, and I can clean up there. I guess maybe that is what I need to do at the 2NL is go down a little in Flop%, because I can't seem to get the damn fish off the hook, lol. I could also go up a tad to 5NL, which I know I have heard isn't quite as bad as 2NL, but I would really like to follow my BR limitations...

eagle jim said:

What C9 said and you really want most of the players to be full stacked at your table...nothing worse than sitting down with a bunch of short stackers. Also watch your table dynamics and if it changes get up and move to a new table.

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Actually, I like to look for tables where all the players have less than the max buy in. At FTP NL Micro tables, the min buy-in is .80 and the max $2.
I always buy in for the max, and become the chip leader at the table right from the start. I feel that those who buy in for the minimum are at a distinct disadvantage.

Point taken about the short-stackers though. If they're the type that go all in or nothing on each hand, I'll leave. If they're playing it straight though, I go with it.

bredstik said:

Point taken about the short-stackers though. If they're the type that go all in or nothing on each hand, I'll leave. If they're playing it straight though, I go with it.

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I wouldn't say they are the only ones to go all-in on nothing as there have been hundreds of times I have seen the medium to large stacks to do the exact same thing in the micros lately...