You are automatically directed to the lobby by means of the poker room application. In the lobby you can find all available cash games and tournaments with respective game details per table (such as number of players seeing flop, pot value, hands played per hour, etc., each of these as a moving average value for the last 20-30 hands or so). In some rooms a find-a-player function and other useful features are also available.

For beginners it would be an excellent idea to check out the special freeroll section of the tournaments as there can be some good freerolls which will fill up to the maximum number of players quickly. The lobby is used by most strong players very extensively, because there are many games where the flop percentage, average pot, profile of player per table and other similar features seem advantageous to their style of playing. This is called table selection.

Not all poker rooms publish information such as view flop percentage. Some prefer not to disclose these details in order to restrain strong players looking for weak/loose games. Often these players can still locate the loose games fairly easily by looking at the average pot (although some of the tables with high pots can be tight and aggressive with lots of hands going to showdown).

Table selection is important in order to both get maximum earnings and find your favorite type of action. If there is not an open seat at the moment, almost all poker rooms allow you to enter waiting lists for specific tables. If you do not ask for a seat at a specific table you will only get in line for the next game at that limit, which is not always as good for you as you want. When a seat is available you will be called automatically. Often you can be in line for at least four tables, so you can afford to be picky and wait in line.

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Also recommended:

1. Texas Holdem’s place in poker Game Selection
2. The Lobby
3. Figuring Out Which Tournament or Table to Join
4. Find a suitable Texas Holdem poker table first!
5. Online Poker Rooms