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Originally Posted by PlsFold
Sorry to break it to you but I havent read anything about poker lingo the final edition and a google search showed up empty. Could you please provide a link?
Until then I will just stick to the word bumhunting. .
Lobby skills are your ability to scroll through the lobby and find new (good) games, manage waitlists and decide on a seat when its offered. (It's kind of implied you're doing these things while also playing multiple tables) These things play a pretty big role in EV, and as slide mentioned, its a player's decision how much in-game attentiveness they want to sacrifice to monitor the lobby.
It's impossible to make +BB without a "bum" at the table, and the more bums, the more $ you make. So am I supposed to pretend I don't know this and not constantly search for the best games--Letting good seats pass up to other players once in a while in the spirit of sportsmanship? Everyone out there is trying to get good seats, the player with the best lobby skills will get more of them. I don't see whats wrong with that, frankly:
Alls fair in love, war and bumhunting
If there were a global waitlist, ppl would just constantly recycle down to the bottom when the seat wasn't good. Which looks much worse than a bunch of waitlists imo. At least lobby skills are a skill, and detract from in game ev. Also, I do see recs on waitlists actually. They're prob looking at avg pot size, not the specific players at the table. But 99% of recs are aware that you'd prefer to play against less skilled opponents. Why deny this fact?
I didn't know ppl were using bots to seat select, which I obvs would not agree with. But I'd prob prefer my own lobby skills anyways.
Last edited by pg_780; 11-19-2013 at 11:04 AM.