Find the "Dead Money"

One of the key things to take into consideration in every poker session is table selections.  This I believe is a huge difference between a player who wins an average amount versus a LARGE amount.  Late last year I spent a few months playing poker “full time”.  I played usually 5 days out of the week and the first couple of months I did not pay any attention to table selection.  I still came out a winner over those months, but after evaluating how well I was doing I tried to come up with ways I could improve.  One of the things I changed was my table selection.  The next couple of months I was able to win almost twice as much as I had won in the previous months.  You always want to make sure that there are at a minimum of two players that are “dead money” at the table.  “Dead money” means a player who does not know how to play very well, is there to have fun, and came to the casino with the mindset that they are ok with losing money.  That is the type of player that I want at my table…and I am happy to be the one they give their money toJ.  In order to find the tables with the most dead money at the table…just observe the poker room for 10 minutes and look at the size of the pots and number of people in them at each table.  The tables that have the larger pots and most people active are the better ones you want to sit at.  In the next blog I will discuss seat selection.  How do you pick your seat after you have found that good table with all the dead money.  A very big tip to picking the right seat is as soon as you sit down ask for a seat change button…you may or may not use it depending on what you learn in my next postJ