Tightening way way way up.

[goofball]

So I noticed a huge difference between my VPIP last calendar year and the way I current play. I'm counting this "way I currently play" as starting at around the beginning of this moneth when I started logging a ton more hours online after spending most of september at Wynn. Last year was consistently around 21, this year is around 15, over 50k and 35k hands respectively. After some use of excel I isolated the hands with the biggest difference between this year and last year. I'm mostly interested in who thinks which year was better for what hand.

(I'm sure part of it is due both to 8tabling and the games getting tougher, but I'm still not sure of these extreme differences)

2005 2004

A3s 20.67 45.10
QJs 67.65 90.21
J9o 2.23 19.96
T8s 32.35 55.36
97s 20.48 43.87
86s 10.99 38.36
66 56.82 87.28
55 51.43 74.71
54s 6.38 26.85
53s 1.90 19.39
44 38.51 64.00
33 32.68 54.30
22 17.05 23.90


I apologize for the barrage of stats, but I'm hoping someone will notice something and say "what the hell are (or were) you doing." I was quite surprised to find how differently I'm playing some of these hands.

[Harv72b]

Either you've got your years backwards, or you've loosened up on all these hands this year? /images/graemlins/confused.gif

Anyway, pretty much all of the hands you listed (QJs being the possible exception) are very situational plays for me. Meaning, I want to be in the blinds (or at least LP behind several limpers) or on an incredibly loose/passive table before I play them.

The pocket pairs obviously become more playable from late position, and depending on the blinds and my table image, all of these hands are possible blind steals (maybe not 53s & 54s).

[goofball]

thanks for telling me, just edited before I looked like a bigger moron.

[Harv72b]

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thanks for telling me, just edited before I looked like a bigger moron.

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Meh. It's not as bad as misclicking a river fold into a river raise with bottom pair/busted flush draw. And of course the river bettor just calls with aces up, so the whole table gets to see. /images/graemlins/blush.gif