SEAT VALUE AND TABLE CONDITIONS
The relative importance of the various factors involved in selecting a seat can change as the table conditions change.
For example, the effect of a maniac sitting in a tight, passive poker game is very different from the effect of the same player taking a seat at a table that’s already very loose and aggressive.
When a player in a seat that you think you’d like to move to looks like he’s getting ready to move, don’t hesitate to speak up and announce that you want that seat.
As you’re playing poker, try to identify seats that you think might be better seats than the one you have.
There are no rules for who gets first claim on an empty seat-it’s first come, first served.
When you do move seats, there is sometimes a penalty of having to post an extra big blind .
It depends on where you’ve moved to in relationship to your current seat and current position of the blinds.
But don’t let this influence your decision.
Having to post an extra blind is a trivial expense compared with the value of a good seat.
Pick the Right Table / Picking a Seat / Theories of Poker / Betting Theory: The Odds
A Theory of Starting Hand Value
A Theory of Flop Play: Counting Outs and Evaluating Draws
The Dynamics of Game Conditions / Table Image / Player Stereotypes
Women and Poker / Spread-Limit Games / Double Bet on the End Games / Kill Games
Short-handed Games / Tournaments / No-limit and Pot-Limit Poker
