Re: How do tourney players make up for lack of table selection?
If you play in multi table tournaments, you will at times hit some tougher tables and some softer tables, but your average table quality will stay the same over the long run. This is no different than being aware that the normal swings of the game mean that you will experience some times when you get absolutely no cards and some times when you can't stop getting good hands.
In general, you seek out tournaments with softer fields at comparable buy-ins. Softer field means you are less likely to encounter a strong table. For example, the World Series of Poker main event was by far the softest field ever for a $10,000 buy-in tournament and every pro with any self-respect who could scrape up a non-bankroll threatening dollar amount or who could get a backing agreement probably tried to get into that tournament.
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