My Preflop Statistics

[Atropos]

Hey folks,
after a short trip to 0.25/0.50, were i won 50 BB in 4 days and lost 45 BB the following day, I recognized that my preflop play really needs to get much better. I seem to be too keen on high cards, and i normally fold suited connectors in late position to decrease variance, but on the other hand i play nearly all pocket pairs...

Some Stats:
Hands: 4600

Pocket Pairs: VP$IP:
22: 62.50%
33: 66.67%
44: 59.04%
55: 75%
66: 82.61%
77: 71.43%
88: 85.71%
99: 84.62%

Some VP$IP <33.33% hands:
64s: 5.26
75s: 6.67
54s: 6.67
J9s: 7.69
65s: 9.09
...

My VP$IP for all hands is 17.08.
I would appreciate it, if someone could post their stats for those small pocket pairs and suited connectors, I often read that in micro limit games the most profit should come from "betting suited connectors for value". Well, I only had 10 Flushes in 4600 Hands,should i playx the suited connectors more often?

[Jeff]

I like Axs more than suited connectors for flushes, and the baby suited connectors I don't touch except in the BB/SB (32 through 65), and I don't bother with 1-gaps at all unless there is a face card in the deal (J9s is about the lowest 1-gap I'll play, sometimes I'll play J8o or better in the SB. But my SB play sucks, so ignore that [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

If there are a lot of people limping, I'll limp in with a decent suited connector, and usually end up folding the flop. My PT stats are useless as I only have 1k hands in the demo version. As are yours, as you aren't likely to have enough hands to get a statistically normal amount of sets with low pocket pairs.


My worst hand of all is 99, I play it too hard. With PPs under 9s though, unless you are heads up, you are simply looking to limp in with a lot of people, and hit a set. If you don't, it's a check/fold. You will hit the set something like 1 in 7 times on the flop, and the implied odds are huge. The thing is, if you have, say, 5 33s for each 1000 hands, you will have only had it 20 times in 4000 hands, so, statistically you would have seen 2 or 3 sets, and that number could very easily be zero. Keep on limping into large pots with a low PP from any position to an unraised pot on a loosr table, and they will pay you off in the long run.

[B Dids]

Most folks will tell you that 4600 hands just isn't enough to be meaningful.

That said- here's my stats in less than that.

1617 Hands

22 19.05
33 100
44 50
55 87.5
66 71.43
77 100
88 100

The suited gappers I'll never play outside of the blinds or maybe for a steal. Suited connectors I won't play lower that T9s outside of the blinds or if there's a ton of callers, and I won't post the stats 'cause there's not enough there to be of any meaning.

[tech]

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i normally fold suited connectors in late position to decrease variance

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LP is when you want to be playing suited connectors, especially with a bunch of limpers in front. Autofolding suited connectors just to reduce variance seems very -EV to me.