Abviusoly it's always better to sit with a fish to your right instead of a bunch of nits all over the place. But just how important is this?

I noticed that when i was playing at the ipoker network i didn't table select and often found myself at tables with 17/11 all over. I mean is there just no way to make a profit against these people assuming there is like 4 of them in a 6max table. Or is there some kind of edge you can creat yourself when playing against a table full of nits?

Easiest options seems to just lobby and try to catch good tables.

But what i don't get when i sit down at these tables with literally just nits is why are they playing eachothers(surely they also know that their opponents are nits too, seeing as everyone has HUDs now aday)? I mean their all 17/11 and assuming over infinite hands they all make the same amount of misstakes and get same cards, shouldn't they just be loosing to rake? Because the money is just going towards button slowely and each time a small % disapears till one of them cracks and makes a misstake or someone leaves and a fish actually comes.

answer this - what do you do against a player that folds a lot?

Assuming no one really knows what they are doing, poker becomes like rock-paper-scissors:
Nits beat calling stations
Lags beat nits
And calling stations beat lags

steal their blinds, raise the flop. due to their nitty nature they are unlikely to call without having a good hand and know when to fold.

Answer this- who pays the rake? Hmm Ok I'll answer The guy playing a lot of small pots.

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Depending on the rake some nits literally cannot be beaten after rake. Even though they suck and lose against you, because they play so few hands you aren't getting the opportunities to beat them in pots. That's why beginners are advised to play tight, you can't lose too much if you play tight while you're learning.

By the way the perpetual nit grinder deserves to be ridiculed and is a total pest for poker. There should be a movement to actually bum hunt nits to make sure they don't get any profits for a while and are forced to quit. Now one could argue that lowering rake effectively makes them more vulnerable to be hunted and killed thus solving a lot of the problem. Poker sites see it differently.

So i should lag against nits, tag against calling stations and never be a calling station(unless against agro fish) myself?

So let's say im sitting down at a 6max with 5 of them being nits 17/11. How much should i raise and or bluff?


For someone with a thing called "job" you seem to be quite intrested in poker still?

Actually as far as seat selection is concerned, I just want aggressive players on my right and ultra tight players on my left. Table selection is very important.

As much as you can get away with.

I would say table selection is way more crucial in live poker but online it's meh

Unless you hate yourself, just leave the table, if not the whole site. If you're looking to make money, game selection is EVERYTHING.
Just like if you were a traveling salesman. You don't waste your time on customers that never buy anything. Move on to where the money is.

Try gamestarting and reap the benefits of having a wild image. They will build games around you if you're doing it right because they think "tight is right." They will sit to your immediate left and will wait for QQ+, AK to isolate you. You can beat up on their blinds when you're in position and you can make awesome exploitive folds when they attack.

Game starting is a good approach, but mostly so you can get heads up games against fish and games entirely devoid of regs.
Don't even wait for the big blind, just click the x.

I'm going to be the contrarian, for my personal experience only it's the other way around.

Reason is, it's trivially easy to open and close tables online so I happily do that in order to ensure every table has a mark. Live, it's comparatively a PITA to move tables and the games I play in, most of the people playing are bad, to the extent that if there isn't a total mark there right now, there will be in less than an hour anyway. YMMV of course.