britspin
10-03-2005, 11:10 PM
I was just checking my stats today.
One thing that astounded me was how high my vpip was for some truly awful hands- over 10% in some cases.
So I filtered for horrible hands (all offsuit card worse than A9/KT/QT/JTo as a random line for horrible) from the small blind. I found I'd played these hands about 120 times from the SB.
I then went through and tried to exclude hands where I was making a move of some kind- (folded round to me in SB, and I raise with rags sort of hand).
Disgustingly, after giving myself every excuse possible, I discovered I've played hands like K6o, 96o, T8o, J8o - as well as the slightly less terrible but still poor T9o, 98o, and 78o in the SB with one or two limpers. I've not done it often, maybe 40-50 times in 7k hands, but often enough that it's probably cost me about 15-20BB overall - a fairly significant chunk of winrate- almost 0.2bb/100?
So this is just a warning. Filter your pokertracker for offsuit cards in the small blind. You'll find some horrors lurking.
The shame alone might improve your play!
One thing that astounded me was how high my vpip was for some truly awful hands- over 10% in some cases.
So I filtered for horrible hands (all offsuit card worse than A9/KT/QT/JTo as a random line for horrible) from the small blind. I found I'd played these hands about 120 times from the SB.
I then went through and tried to exclude hands where I was making a move of some kind- (folded round to me in SB, and I raise with rags sort of hand).
Disgustingly, after giving myself every excuse possible, I discovered I've played hands like K6o, 96o, T8o, J8o - as well as the slightly less terrible but still poor T9o, 98o, and 78o in the SB with one or two limpers. I've not done it often, maybe 40-50 times in 7k hands, but often enough that it's probably cost me about 15-20BB overall - a fairly significant chunk of winrate- almost 0.2bb/100?
So this is just a warning. Filter your pokertracker for offsuit cards in the small blind. You'll find some horrors lurking.
The shame alone might improve your play!