Table Selection

The Snapper

I'm currently 4 Tabling 50NL on ipoker. Some of you may have encountered the following similar scenarios,

you check out the lobby for the tables with highest average vpip and join whats usually a long waiting list for that table.

But by time your turn comes round the fish have all been eaten and the table is full of tags.

You manage to get yourself into a juicy game but it changes quickly with players leaving or sitting out.

This all going on as you try to keep focus at your live tables and can be a huge and costly distraction.

How do you seasoned multitablers manage table selection ?, its not a subject I've seen discussed in any great detail. Which is strange given its potential impact on your profitability.

ianmc38

Start your own tables. You'll always get at least one or two fish that way.

davidgti

yes this happins myself also.what i tend to do is enter the high vpip tables and play some till my stats tell me high low etc.if all low ill prob leave after a few round's and keep in and out of the high vpip tables.buddy list all you fish imo and when your about to start playing go to your list of fish first and try join there table but sometime's there playing play money all the best at the tables.

David

Slash/ED

Wait until you've like around ten hands on everyone on the table and leave if the tables not looking good enough, keep repeating ths until you find tables that are good.

Keep in mind though that stats can be misleading at this point. A guy who's like 50/50 over 10 hands just raised 5/10 hands and may be a tag who's just hit some good starting hands. A guy who's 50/0 over that same sample is pretty much always crap though.

The Snapper

ianmc38 wrote: »

Start your own tables. You'll always get at least one or two fish that way.

I'll give this a try.

davidgti wrote: »

yes this happins myself also.what i tend to do is enter the high vpip tables and play some till my stats tell me high low etc.if all low ill prob leave after a few round's and keep in and out of the high vpip tables.buddy list all you fish imo and when your about to start playing go to your list of fish first and try join there table but sometime's there playing play money all the best at the tables.

David

Thanks thats pretty much the method I use myself.

Slash/ED wrote: »

Wait until you've like around ten hands on everyone on the table and leave if the tables not looking good enough, keep repeating ths until you find tables that are good.

You would and should have some hands on them already, do you use eyepoker, if so, for mining, selecting ? I find the scan table function very useful.

Anyone use eyepoker to table select ?

ianmc38

ianmc38 wrote: »

Start your own tables. You'll always get at least one or two fish that way.

Really, this is a fool proof method. I've done this on every network Ive played on for the past 2 years and it hasn't failed once.

semibluff

I like starting new tables too - normally works well. They norm fill up pretty soon, but i guessed it had something to do with the fact i had started them! lol

Not sure if this is worth the constant hassle, but with say a 400 buy in - i often sit in with 217.13 or something obscure like that, and anyone who isnt a reg normally give you a shot. its funny when three hands in you reload full! lol but works sometimes

ianmc38

yes i like buying in for ridic amounts as well. Another one of the oldest tricks in the book, but still effective

jimbling

davidgti wrote: »

go to your list of fish first and try join there table but sometime's there playing play money all the best at the tables.
David

okay, I'm pretty new to ipoker, but have yet to figure out how to do this. Could someone please explain it to me? I go to my buddy list, but there's nothing in it. I have to search to find anyone. Am I missing something here?

ianmc38 wrote: »

Start your own tables. You'll always get at least one or two fish that way.

I've never tried this before. In fact, I've never started my own table in my life. I'm not big on very short handed poker. Do they fill up quickly enough?


Edit: up till now, my standard method of table selection is to just join a ton of tables*.
Close and re-open others as you go. I can normally get 9 nice tables going with between 20-35% vpip.

Obviously joining the list with highest vpip and av pot first.... but sometimes the wait on those is ridiculous, and as said, by the time you get there its changed.

shano_88

http://www.pokertableratings.com/

its a fairly good site, you should check it out. Hve been using it for the last couple of months and i think its worth having an account.....

lee_arama

ianmc38 wrote: »

Really, this is a fool proof method. I've done this on every network Ive played on for the past 2 years and it hasn't failed once.

And start it short stacked too so as to attract someone thinking they can bust you quickly. Sitting in with a full roll will scare peeps off.

I tend to pick tables (if offered a selection) with the highest pot average since it indicates action is likely. Always a good thing when you flp monsters.

Slash/ED

The Snapper wrote: »

You would and should have some hands on them already, do you use eyepoker, if so, for mining, selecting ? I find the scan table function very useful.

Anyone use eyepoker to table select ?

I use it for mineing yeah, but not for table selection, I find it too awkward to be honest

The Improver

Bump, found this tread interesting and would love to hear some more comments and sugestions, i think its a big part of the game table selection, never tought of starting my own tables but i wonder would it take long for them to fill up?

Treehouse72

I spend a very large portion of any session table selecting. The key point I'd like to make about this is that I don't consider table selecting an extraneous, peripheral or bothersome part of the session. Rather, it is as integral a part of my day as clicking the bet and fold buttons.

The downside is that it can be distracting, but I have mentally built table selecting into the session itself so I avoid the mentality of "Oh damn, I have to find another table"....rather it's "Ok, back to the table selecting portion of my day". It's a juggling act of getting your rhythms right while switching between the playing task and the bumhunting...sorry, I mean table selecting task.

It can tricky, but I'd say that during a daytime session (ie when the regs are around) as much as 10% or 15% of my time/attention goes towards it, which is not insignificant.

Tony_Montana

ianmc38 wrote: »

Start your own tables. You'll always get at least one or two fish that way.

Great advise i just tried it out and man does it work

NiPoker

I just sit down on any available table and i'll leave it if it just full of nits or good regs, as there will always be better tables.

Seat selection can make all the difference too.