Quote Originally Posted by Bmxicle
2) look for big potsizes, and start up short handed tables, fish are impatient, they don't want to wait on a big waiting list ofr a "good table" they want to gamble right away, so i sit there and they generally just come to me.
Excellent point, there was a while when I was playing $25NL 6-max I used to base my entire table selection on this. I would just fire up two empty tables and wait. Inevitably a few will sit down with about 5-10$ and be pure gamblers. You can crush them with your stack and if they luck out just rebuy, you have them covered anyway . I found that by the time the table had 'stabalised' to a few regs you could have quite a nice stack built up. Of course by this time the stats in the lobby may have attracted a few sharks but they are normally easy to spot and if the table went bad I just got up and started again. I also enjoyed the relativly 'risk free' heads up experience.

I know this isn't a very scientific approach but it was one that worked for me at the 25 tables. Now I play at 50 I generally just look for big pot sizes and position on a few people I have favourable stats on. I think there are more solid players at $50 (although someone with about a 70% VP$IP over 40 hands pushed his 99 pre-flop into my KK yesterday to hit a 9 on the turn but i'll be searching his name from now on! ); so the let them come to you may not be as effective.