Online Table Selection

You can find an assortment of writings that explain which games you may want to play in on line based on hands per hour or average number of players seeing a flop (or fourth street). What I want to address is heads up play (and to a lesser extent sit and gos). If you play a lot on line, you should be keeping notes about those with whom you play. I'll admit that I'm not the best at this, but you'd prefer to play against weaker players as opposed to playing stronger ones. This is basically the same principle with regard to table selection. You may be the best razz player in the world, but why play against 6 or 7 other top razz players when you (a good omaha 8/b player) can play omaha 8/b against 8 weak players? It just makes more sense in my opinion to attack the weaker players.

If I'm playing online and want to play heads up, I rarely open a table and let people come to me. Instead, I go to players that are already seated. This may seem like a trivial point, but by selecting your opponent you avoid a stronger player coming to sit with you. Instead, you have control over who you play against and who you may avoid. There are skilled players that I'd rather not play if there is an option of playing against a weaker player. This same principle can be applied to sit and gos. Don't open a table--try to be one of the last 3 to sit. Look for tables full of weak players and you'll find that your results should improve.