Two Plus Two Older Archives - 50,000 hand check-up Part 1 (general summary)

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1. Your PF VP$IP is too high. Note how your BB/100 is better at 3/6 when you lowered your VP$IP from 31 to 23. Lower it to 20, or better 18 (but harder to do self-discipline-wise) and you will get into fewer sticky situations. It matters.

My biggest online leak pre-PT was to play too many hands. I watched my VP$IP go from 28 to 25 to 23 to 20 over a few days, and stay there, and many many bad post flop situations were avoided. My win rate went up. Not losing big pots with 2nd best....

2. Never call two cold pre-flop. Ever. Ever. I didn't do it for my first 1000 or 2000 hands just for discipline sake. I either raised or folded to 2 bets cold. I then loosened up 3-4 times and called. I lost big pots every time. Then I did data gathering from 30-60. The losers there, even if they were otherwise very good players --> they lost their biggest pots when they called two cold. Always instead of folding.

3. You may be folding a bit too often on the river. I need to check my own numbers, but this one is harder to quantify. My rule of thumb is to bet out on the river with overcards (or call) against certain player profiles. Like people with dice next to their name [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

good luck,

Mark

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1. You are looking at the wrong numbers. His VP$IP is a little too tight if anything. You are looking at Small Blind

2. This is OK advice to give beginners who want to win 1bb/100, but it is frequently correct to limp and cold call in lose games was some hands. the key is learning how to play these hands well postflop

3. Agree, but be careful calling with overcards in 2/4 party games