Game Selection, Seat Selection, Table Selection

So I was in a pretty good and bad 40/80 game last night at Oceans-11. It looked like it was going to be a good game for me with a major donator in the game with like 6 racks. I tried to get in the seat to his immediate left, but one of the more observant players in the game locked up the seat before I got my chips down and was able to take a hand. Thus I was relegated to the 9 seat, while the donator was in the 5 seat. Seat 6 was the player who just moved and is a good player, very aggressive, sometimes overly so. Seat 7 was a pro from LA who usually plays bigger, but lately has been playing a lot at Oceans in the 20 and 40 games. Seat 8 was a semi-regular in the game and a nit. Seat 2 is another good pro, who plays a very good game. So it was basically the 5 of us trying to take the 5 seat's money. Not such a good idea. He was hitting left and right and making everyone pay. He cashed out a good 7 or 8 racks, although he had 6 or so racks when I sat down.

He left, but luckily another bad player who took the 4 seat, joined the game before he exited stage left with everyone's money including a little of mine. Thus I was able to move to the 5 seat and get position on the new bad player. I fared a little better here, but I think my chip count varied between 1200 and 3000 pretty much all night. Now, here's where I made a mistake. The 4 seat decided his seat was unlucky or something, plus he's a notorious seat changer anyways, so he moved from the 4 seat to the 9 seat. I decided to slide over to the 3 seat so I could chat with my friend in the 2 seat. Now the 9 seat decides to move to the 5 seat. Doh, in the matter of like 5 or 6 hands, I went from the best seat in the game to the worst! So I had no choice, but to move to 9 seat now. Luckily I had put my name on the 20/40 game and as soon as a seat came available in that game I went ahead and took it. I booked a 420 win in that not very good 40/80 game in 3.5 hours and was pretty happy to do it.

The 20/40 game was extremely juicy and I won 755 in a little over an hour and half, picked up a little after 2am and came home.