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Originally Posted by MikeStarr
I always get a seat change button and end up moving to seats 1 or 9. Mainly because I have more room to move around which makes it easier on my bad back. I can stand up as much as I want without disturbing anyone. I hate the middle seats and the when in an end seat I end up leaning forward to much which hurts my back. I also am able to text people or put notes on my phone without people looking over my shoulder and seeing what Im doing.
Other people have their own strange reasons for whatever seats they like. In my estimation 90%+ of all seat changing is due to nothing related to getting position on people.
Once in seat 1 or 9, I have probably only changed seats 3 times in 2 years due to positioning of other players. My comfort when Im sitting for 5 hours is a lot more important to me and how well I play than where other people are sitting. There are adjustments you can make to play differently if you are on a pro's right or left or a whale's right or left.
I bet if you took a poll in a poker room most people would say something similar. They want to be in a certain seat for any reason other than positioning on certain players. You guys over think this stuff.
Nope, we are talking from years of experience and actual knowledge on this topic. But i guess we are fighting windmills, because obviously you guys are not looking to listen.
When you listen to very experienced succesfull livepros from all over the world, the importance of how to interract and treat big whales is something that they keep mentioning over and over again. And its understandable, cause some people (even on 2+2 where this kind of stuff gets debated regurarly) STILL doesent get it.
This isnt about what you usually does when it comes to seat changing. Its about knowing that alot of seat changing or any predatory behaviour like Feel Wrath also mentioned (for whatever reason you have in your own head for seat changing, doesent matter) in worst case scenario can contribute to pissing off a big whale that is ready to dump money into the game, and get him to leave. I have seen it more times than i can count,and it pisses me off.
Last time it happend, was at Harrahs in Vegas. Drinking whale have been sunrunning and ran his $300 buyin up to about $2000. This is a 1/2 game. This is late at night, we are sitting 5 handed with this guy who is ready to dump it all to us. He is drinking, straddling, playing every hand dealt and whatnot. Smart hoodie grinder with zero social intelligence seat changes to the left of whale. At this point 3 of us have the drinks going with whale and he seems to forget about leaving. But when smartass headphone grinder seat changes, he asks him instantly if he moved seat to get to his left instead, and is visibly pissed off. Grinder responds by pissing whale even more off, by responsing in a rude way that he can sit in whatever seat he wants. Whale instantly fires back: "Alright then, i can do whatever i want too, i am gonna cashout my money and leave".
Nice freaking work, and a prime example of what this is all about. Can you imagine the EV we all lost in that spot? Like playing a huge whale shorthanded who plays every hand dealt with a 1000 BB stack. Clueless behaviour from average regs, that have zero idea about how to treat their customers and losing players in the game that want to have fun while losing- instead of feeling like a small bird where a full table of sniper rifles sitting ready to kill him.