So I was talking to this midstakes winner. He was trying to hammer in my head that I need to table select more. That's cool. Then he mentioned how having a 60 VPIP fish directly to your left is -EV. Uh...what? So basically even if you're the best player at the table, not playing is better than playing when a huge fish has position on you? His argument were something like the fish always flatting you IP so you have to tighten your opening range. The fish never folding so you can't bluff. Uh...can't you just adjust? The fish is still going to make huge mistakes and there's no way the fish becomes a winning player vs you just cause of position.

The closest analogy I can think of is driving to the casino, waiting 45 minutes for a live table, then having a huge station on your immediate left. So this guy would rather just rejoin the wait list than play? Seems extremely counter-intuitive. Then again this guy is a midstakes winner and I've been stuck at micros for years so he probably knows a few things I don't.