Tables of any complexity present problems for mobile devices. The number of columns may not fit elegantly on small screens; the content of individual cells (headers and/or data) can be too long to display appropriately.
Boostrap handles striping, borders, hovers, and context for you pretty well:
can all be applied to a table element.
A coherent strategy for showing/hiding individual columns, and modifying the contents, has yielded the best results in my experience. Consult hidden-{size} and visible-{size} in http://getbootstrap.com/css/#responsive-utilities.
You can also make tables responsive by wrapping in a div with class="table-responsive", which will make them horizontally scrollable on small devices, if you still need to display all columns.
see 00_resources/cdn_js.txt and 00_resources/cdn_js.txt for quick copy/paste of js and css resources