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Choose Tables That Fit Your Style

For a beginner one could make an argument that the most suitable tables would be loose and passive. This means that many players are seeing the flop and that there is no aggressive betting (few raises or re-raises). In those games opponents are playing starting hands with negative expected value and they are not protecting strong holdings throughout the pot, thereby missing out on expected value.

However, some advanced players prefer the games to be loose and wild/aggressive (along the line of the drunken macho home game) where a lot of money goes into the pot throughout the hand on all streets.

 

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To make this even more complicated, there are certain types of higher stakes players who prefer to play in very tight and passive games. They will start out robbing the blinds and use their aggressive (and hopefully unpredictable) table image to dominate and terrorize the game. A lot of times it only takes one of these " hurricane" players to set an entire table on tilt and change the style of game played. This phenomenon can be quite interesting to be part of.

To make things simple for the beginner, we recommend that you look for the loosest games possible where you can play a straight forward, moderately tight, and aggressive game with good results. Of course, you will see a slightly higher volatility (ups and downs) in the loosest games as there will be lots of drawing hands beating you on the last round. But that is poker!

Here are two tables with approximate view flop percentages (average number of players seeing the flop) and pot sizes you can expect to see at full ring games in fixed limit Texas Hold'em. They show various limits, as well as what percentages could be considered tight/loose per limit:

Game

Limit

Typical flop %

Typical pot size

Limit Texas Hold'em

$0.5-$1

45%

$8

$1-$2

40%

$16

Full 10-player game

$3-$6

35%

$42

$5-$10

30%

$65

$15-$30

25%

$180

$30-$60

23%

$330



Game

Limit

Tight

Loose

Very loose

Limit Texas Hold'em

$0.5-$1

32%

60%

75%

$1-$2

30%

55%

70%

Full 10-player game

$3-$6

28%

50%

60%

$5-$10

26%

45%

50%

$15-$30

24%

40%

45%

$30-$60

22%

35%

40%



For more on table selection read the following strategy article, table-selection.

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