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1.7 Poker Table Selection
Now you have Ladbrokes Poker downloaded, you’ve opened a new account and made a deposit of $25 into your account, we can now look at which table to select ie: which is the most profitable table.
Click on Tables and select the Cash Game section. We are looking for the Holdem section and the No Limit section of the list. The tables we are looking for are the $0.05/0.10 tables with 10 players on a table (or 9 players on Bodog). Throughout this course we will be playing on full tables of 9 or 10 player tables so you can ignore the shorthanded (6 player) tables for now.
As you look at the table available you will see a number of statistics here, the one we are interested in is the % Flop. What this number is telling us is the average % of the players at the table who see each flop. The basic rule of thumb here is that the higher this number is, then the more fish (bad players) the table contains.
Why? Because as you have already learnt, fish chase bad cards, they play hands that they should just fold, and hence you get more players trying to play each flop.
A room with a lower percentage would indicate better players, so if you saw a room with 10% - 20% then this table has a lot of better players, who don’t play with hands they shouldn’t.
As you can see from the % on Ladbrokes Poker there are plenty of fish for us to catch, with pretty much every table on the lower stakes being above 30 - 50% which is very good.
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