CHOOSING A SEAT

For the developing player, seat 6 (next to third base) is prefer-able. You have a longer time to think about your best play be-cause five people must finish their hands ahead of you. Although you aren't very far from third base, you have a much better view of the entire table without having to swivel your head excessively.

Seat 5 is next best, but you are getting too near the middle of the table to be ideal. You've got hands on either side of you, keeping your head panning like a bank camera. Pit bosses know to watch closely anyone paying too much attention to the other players' cards. There's no need to cause yourself the extra work and at-tract the unwanted attention if a better seat is free.

In summary, remember that the suggestions in thiswebsectionare guidelines, not hard-and-fast rules. They are based upon trends and percentages, not individual peculiarities. If you're sitting at third base with an old-codger dealer, ranging your bets like crazy in the worst-rated dust joint on the charts being dealt an eighty-five-deck hand held face down game with solid-colored cards and winning, stay there and milk it! As one grizzled gambler said to me, "I'll tell you what I think about your computers and aver-ages.

The average person in this world's got 1 boob, 1 ball, and 21/2 kids!" But the charts show that if you play the games with lower win rates over a long period of time, you are less likely to walk away a winner.

What the advice in thiswebsectionwill do is to help give you an edge that exists in the game. You will be certain that you are doing everything in your power to get the best chance to win.

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