(FL) Selecting Tables by Avg Pot Size |
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Posted Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:13 am GMT by lwestatbus
I'm still playing primarily fixed limit ring games on Stars (after having been booted by PokerRoom). I've set a desirable average pot size in a $0.25/0.50 game of $3/hand as my criteria for joining a table. I find that these games tend to be very profitable, whether they have large number of passive players building the pot with loose calls or one or more aggressive players building a pot with fewer players seeing the flop.
I'm very ready to be playing at higher stakes and have been mixing up stakes between 0.25/0.50 and 1.00/2.00 for a couple of months now.*
I would like to play at tables with average pot sizes proportionate to the pot sizes I like at the lower stakes but these tables are few and far between. (E.g., $6 pots at 0.50/1.00 and $12 at 1.00/2.00.) There will regularly be games with close-to-proportionate average pots ($5 or $10) but rarely equal to my desired target.
How important do you consider the average pot size to be as a selection criteria? If it is important to you, what is your target relative to the Big Blind size?
When I can't find a game at my stakes I drop back to 0.25/0.50 or play a $1.20 SnG. I don't like joining long waiting lists as the character of the table is likely to change with the change out of two or more players.
* I'd been playing at 1.00/2.00 regularly on PokerRoom but a couple of bad months and NeTeller's demise after switching had caused me to step back until I rebuilt my bankroll. It is now in reasonable shape.
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