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Money in motion
Game selection makes more than hero plays: a table of drinking, laughing, splashing tourists beats any edge you can grind against nine silent regulars. Regulars trade the same thin edge back and forth all night — you need someone at the table who came for the fun. Pick the table where money is in motion; online, the same law applies, so sort by pots per hour and average stack before you sit. The seat itself is a lever: park yourself to the left of the loose-aggressive cannon so you act after them, and to the right of the tight rock so their blind-folds land behind your steals. The best players earn more from where they sit than from how they play.
Play
Where you sit earns more than how you play — the softest seat beats the sharpest line.