Table selection is something you should take into consideration when playing a cash game. You want to find a table that is condusive to your style of play. I believe that playing a tight-aggressive style is the best way to win money in the long run. Because of this, I try and find a loose table where the average pot is somewhere in the 9-10x BB or greater range. The reason for this is that I want to get paid off on my good hands and make my value bets work. Playing at a tight table will be hard to make a lot of money because it will be hard to get paid on your great hands, unlike a loose table where someone may call with a weak hand. By playing a tight game it gets kind of boring. This is a big problem, because one of two things usually happens to me: 1)I start to concentrate on other things and not the play at the table or 2) I start to loosen up myself and make some weak calls which ends up losing money. It takes some patience to not play too many hands, but it will pay off in the long run.
Usually in a loose game you will have a lot of people calling with Ax, which works well with a tight game when you would be holding a higher kicker. These type of hands will usually pay you well because of the weak calls by the players. Of course with players making a lot of calls on your bets, you are invariably going to get beat on the river and lose some decent sized pots. Just remember, you picked this loose table because it’s the best way to make money in the longer term. Just remember, you just need one solid hand against this opponent again and you will most likely get your money back very quickly.
