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Old 12-19-2005, 02:39 PM
tipperdog tipperdog is offline
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Default SnG Table Selection: What do you do?

I'm very curious how others practice table/game selection for SnGs at the 55-109 level, if at all. Personally, I just don't. If I see an empty seat at my preferred limit, I take it.

It seems to me that if you join the table first, you might not have time to back out (if you determine that you want to) as the seats fill up so quickly. Conversely, if you spend a minute looking up records on your potential opponents, the seat will fill before you've made up your mind.

I'm very curious what others do and believe this is an under-discussed topic. For all you regulars out there:

Do you practice table selection?
If so, what do you look for and what tools do you use?
Generally, how important do you believe table selection is for SnGs, and does the importance vary by buy-in level?
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Old 12-19-2005, 03:22 PM
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Default Re: SnG Table Selection: What do you do?

Bump. Surely this is more interesting than, "Should I fold KK here?"
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Old 12-19-2005, 03:33 PM
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Default Re: SnG Table Selection: What do you do?

i think its a waste of time up to the 30s and I'm not sure if that many do it at the 50s. As far as the 100s and the 200s, a lot of players know who the "regulars" are and if they see 2 or 3 or whatever their cutoff is they wont sit there. The higher tables also fill up a little slower giving you more time to decide.
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Old 12-19-2005, 03:42 PM
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Default Re: SnG Table Selection: What do you do?

Seat selection is FAR more important IMHO at the higher limits
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Old 12-19-2005, 03:53 PM
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Seat selection is FAR more important IMHO at the higher limits

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Could you elaborate?
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Old 12-19-2005, 03:54 PM
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Default Re: SnG Table Selection: What do you do?

Relative position to players you know well. Depending on what you believe both their push and call ranges to be.
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Old 12-19-2005, 04:08 PM
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Default Re: SnG Table Selection: What do you do?

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Seat selection is FAR more important IMHO at the higher limits

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Could you elaborate?

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There have been 236236 posts on this topic.

So, IMHO, go use the search engine.
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Old 12-19-2005, 04:16 PM
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Thats not an opinion.
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Old 12-19-2005, 04:16 PM
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Relative position to players you know well. Depending on what you believe both their push and call ranges to be.

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Yep. Lately I'm sitting as far as I can from the 'regulars', because they'll loosen up their range against me when I push (calling with any ace and [censored] like that), and they push a lot of hands into me, usually. Having a good pushbot to your right is hell. When someone repeatedly folds his SB when the blinds are high, I'll make a note of it if I see it, and try to sit to his left. I usually don't have notes on bad players.
If people think it's not necessary at the $55's... I think they're wrong. I'm almost always with 2 good players at a table. Lately I'm seeing a lot of them. I have a screenshot where all 8 tables are filled with mostly 'solid players'. (Which means their PA HUD stats are scary.)

BTW, I just tested the new PokerAce HUD with party beta support. Won $755 in one set. Yay. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] ($55's)
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Old 12-19-2005, 04:34 PM
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The following link takes you to this very discussion found here in the forum.
http://archiveserver.twoplustwo.com/show...rt=all&vc=1
Take note of the reply by lorinda. Seems to make pretty good sense.
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