This is a skill I have never bothered to practice. But I've been trying to give it a go recently.

Sorting the lobby by VPIP or average pot is not very useful. I don't think the information is accurate at all. I don't know what kind of sample they work with, but a lot of tables that look soft are actually just filled with nitty regs.

Going the extra mile and bumhunting at FR games has been a futile exercise thus far. I went through my database, identified the biggest whales, and looked for them at the tables. Any time I found one or more, the waiting list at their tables was quite large.

For that matter, most tables in general have waiting lists. How is it even really possible to select a table? Once you sit down, the composition of the table will be completely different. And probably not for the better.

I'm beginning to think that "table selection" is a misleading term. Maybe what I should be doing is table deselection. Join a bunch of tables at random, and if a game is bad, leave. Rinse, repeat.

Alternatively, I suppose you could start up empty tables. I hear that fish are more likely to join small tables than regs.