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Old 10-20-2005, 04:21 PM
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Default Re: My PT stats - comments?

One thing you are probably doing too much with that VPIP is cold-calling preflop. Look at all the hands in your PT database that you have cold-called with (ccpf).

Then go through and replay all the hands to see the situations where you should NOT have cold-called, but you SHOULD have folded or 3-bet. Then see where the board did not hit you hard enough and you took your hand too far.

You can also gain from playing a couple sessions with a 'different style' than you usually play.

Get super-super tight and see how it works for you...more importantly see how your opponents react to your style:

Notice what type of players start making moves against you cuz they see you as weak-tight. Notice what type of players respect your bets/raises and let you take pots uncontested.

Get LAGgy for a couple sessions (caution...do this at a limit where your bankroll can sustain a little variance....and make sure you are not at a table full of TAG's!). You will be amazed at the kind of stunts you can pull and get away with. Of course you are going to 'get caught' occasionally...don't be afraid of looking silly.

I am not suggesting you step out of your current A-game for long, but that you experiment a little to help yourself get inside your opponents heads. Once you've experienced a few different moves, you have a better chance of recognizing them from the other side.

Another thing you can do with PT is play through all your premium hands to get a feel for WHERE you are winning and losing money with them. Consider that if you are going to raise pf with AK 100% of the time, you are going to be in a bunch of pots that you will win and many more that you will lose. Go through and group them into the different scenarios...flop hits but somthing better is out there....flop misses but you hit later in the hand, etc...if you can improve your expectation with AK alone you will improve your bottom line.

Anyway, that's a few ideas for how to use your PT data to help you improve beyond looking at the overused 'stats'.
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