Increasing my PFR

[That guy]

Some of this is table selection. If the pots are getting consistently raised in front of you, you are going to have trouble getting your PFR to your target level. If its a passive table, it will be relatively easy to get up to 12-15%...

If the table is really aggressive, you just have to tighten up a bit. It is difficult (and often costly) to be trying to keep your statistics in a range when you are at a table with multiple aggressive players -- even if they are LAG's. This goes back to situational poker (non self-weighting).

It is entirely possible that even 10% PFR isn't appropriate given table conditions. (I am mixing 5/10 comments in here where tables are generally much more aggressive than typical 3/6)

[coolhanded]

I'd be careful focusing too much on achieving a certain PFR. Individual table conditions should drive your decision making about VPIP and PFR more than some magic PFR number. This implies you should play every table the same, which you shouldn't. I look at my PT stats, too, but I think there's danger in micromanaging them.

[RyGreen18]

i agree with david, people focus too much on getting perfect PT stats. im not saying that you should ignore them completely, but ever situation in poker is different. if you want to increase your aggression, focus on the times when you should and not on how the numbers play out. don't put in too many PFR's just to get to 12 or whatever. my PFR is 9.7 and I'm happy with it

[ckessel]

Thanks folks. I'm apparently thinking backwards. It's not so much hands as situations that I'm looking to raise more. 3/6 is a big jump from, well, anything below it. I'll spend a few thousand hands working on some specific situations (isolation, blinds) and see if I can get the feel for it.

.25/.50 to 2/4 was basically the same for me. 3/6 is apparently my Peter Principle level at which I become incompetent [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[coolhanded]

Good luck. My initial experience with 3/6 was terrible. Now I'm basically playing 5/10. It's amazing how much room for improvement there is at this game.