PRIMARY PLAYER CHARACTERISTICS
The objective in choosing a seat is to put yourself in a position relative to certain poker players which enables you to exploit mistakes made by those players.
Information gathering is one thing that can help you exploit opponents’ mistakes, but it’s not the only one and it’s often not even the most important.
Picking good seat is part of an overall strategy of being a lucky player-not because you pick a lucky seat,but because you pick a seat that will give you opportunities.
The way your seat can give you opportunities depends on your opponents’ habits and the kinds of mistakes they tend to make.
Loose Players
A loose player doesn’t just play a lot of hands he tends to get involved with a lot of pots.
Loose players play many hands and continue to play into the later betting rounds.
Because they play many hands, you get frequent information from them.
Playing a lot of hands means they often play weak hands, so you won’t really know a lot about the strength of their hands, but you will know more about the size of the pot and whether you will be betting odds to play such speculative hands as J 
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We’ll talk about this more in later chapters.
Aggressive Players
An aggressive player is one who bets and raises a lot.
If you bet into an aggressive player, he might fold or he might raise, but he is probably not going to just call.
Because aggressive players raise a lot, their raise before you have to act means you can fold hands such as A 6 , which are money makers in multiway pots because of their flush potential,but you often don’t want to call a raise with that hand.
as you will frequently have to give up that hand on the flop, you would like to know you don’t have to invest that money to call a raise.
Lose-Aggressive Players
Although you usually prefer a loose player on your right and an aggressive player on your right, if a player is both loose and aggressive, you’re often better off with him on your left.
A player who is too loose, but otherwise plays typically, is almost always making the mistake of playing too many hands; a player who plays too aggressively, but otherwise plays typically, is probably making the mistake of overplaying mediocre or marginal poker hands.
These are different mistakes, but, as we’ll see in a minute, you can usually best exploit either of these mistakes by sitting to the player’s left.
A player who does not play typically at all, but plays both loose and aggressively, might not be making as many mistakes as you might think, depending on the particular game conditions.
Whether a player who is both loose and aggressive is making many mistakes, you can usually do better gives you more opportunities for tactical maneuvers in betting rounds.
Tight Players
A tight player isn’t going to give up much money.
The exception is a tight player who folds too often on the river, but you won’t find many of those.
Most tight players are tight in terms of their initial hand selection.
They don’t play many hands, but, typically once they decide to play a hand, they’re often committed to it.
A tight player is one who doesn’t get involved in many pots.
He’s very selective. Tight players make tight tables.
Sometimes they give up easily to a bet on the flop or turn, or fail to bet good hands strongly.
Generally you’d prefer a tight player to be on your left.
There are two reasons for this.
First, although knowing that a tight poker player is playing a hand does give you some information about the strength of his hand, he seldom plays so you do better with information gathering by having room on your right for loose players and aggressive players.
Second, if you’re at a tight table, you’ll get frequent opportunities to open from late position with a raise and steal a tight player’s blinds if he’s on your left.
Pick the Right Table / 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
