Table Selection

I play NL25 FR and I would like some opinions on your criteria for table selection. I play on Pokerstars and I use the "Avg Pot" and "Plrs/Flop" statistics shown in the lobby to select tables. What are the statistics that reflect the tables that you prefer? What type of players are at these tables? And how should you play against these types of players?
Thanks for your input.

How does your table selection criteria change as you move up the stakes?

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avoid having shortstacks on your left

learn who is good, and try not to sit oop to them.

i think thats a good way.

i dont think table selection matters at 25nl however.

i play nl50 fr on stars atm and i really do notice tables will open up with like a bunch of fish and within 30m - 1h they usually go completely stale and are full of sharks

that said, my method is : always organize by plrs/flop, and i glance over at h/hour because when h/hour are abnormally large it usually means a table has only recently filled up, which can be great to find a new and fishy table?

finally, its usually helpful to note if a bunch of guys on a table have medium sized stacks like 30-80BBs that seem completely random, they usually arent completely dominant regs?

anyway, yeah. and while playing, i just look at my ptracker stats for table averages of vpip, usually when it goes down below 20 it means gtfo (especially if its below 15)

edit i just noticed u said fr so i can include more numbers

idk, like 80+ hands an hour for turbo or otherwise is probably meaning a table recently filled up, so is 40+% vpip, and after that its just kind of use your own judgement


and then you cuddle up on the left side of a stack of fish, and all the experts line up on your left accordingly, and then it means you can comfortably steal blinds from your left and extract value from your right and its all hunky dorey? :O

I look for PPF to be around 30% or more, and then I check out stack sizes.

Try sitting in position against big stacks.

I found a table that changed to 1% PPF once I got there, steal heaven.

sit in position vs big stacks, play on tables that are over 20% pf, find the looser players and adjust to them, other than that the rest of the table will be playing standard tag so just take regular precautions

table selection can always help your winrate. i think that's pretty much a universal and absolute truth

some big criteria when browsing are that i like to see full stacks and a high number of players seeing the flop. there are also some players whom i avoid completely while there are others whose tables i will join without any consideration for other factors.

as people have been saying, the players per flop is probably going to be way more valuable to than the average pot. that said, if there's a table with like 40% ppf and an average pot of $5 i'd prefer that to a 41%/$.50 table