[AleoMagus]

In thinking about table selection lately, a couple things have been making me think.

It started a while back when a successful high buy-in sng player stated that when seating themself, they always took the same seat becasue they knew another great player who also always took that seat (at least they always did this when they noticed that other player was at the tables). This made a lot of sense.

Also, I have recently stopped playing 'anonymously' through the party skins (with names nobody knows) and have put a lot of money back onto party where I am playing as Aleomagus again. I have been recognized by name more than once and in those cases, I have been really able to put a read on players because I could assume certain things about them. I suppose they could put something of a read on me also, but at least it gave me an indication of who to maybe watch out for.

Then yesterday I sat down in a sng when suddenly heyrocker sits down to my immediate left. Now I have played heyrocker in a few 2+2 sngs and I did not like the thought of him having position on me for the next 45 minutes. Just when I was about to say bye and get up, he noticed me and graciously offered to take the next sng.

So I guess what I am thinking is that perhaps making oneself know to other good players could be an edge in
table selection. The fish are mostly just herding through anyways so it makes sense that good players avoid one another so they get as many as possible at their table.

This is all kind of obvious I realize, but it still seems like something I (and others) don't exploit often enough. Many times I have gone to heads up with another good player, got a good banter going, and once that sng is over, sat myself down in the next avaliable sng with that same player! Why?! Sure it can be fun to have good conversation, but why should it be at the expense of profit.

When you think about it, if ALL winning players decided to all sit at the same seat all the time, everybody's ROI would probably go up 10%. The fish might start to really think party is rigged when seat 5 somehow always seemed to be finishing well.

Oh well. Just some idle thoughts. If anyone on here wants to volunteer their party names, I'd be happy to make a list and never sit down with you.

Regards
Brad S

PS. heyrocker, maybe I should have got up in that sng. I ran into a big pair on the bubble and it had an unhappy ending for me.