Tight play wins the money? Pokertracker says not!

[donkeyradish]

Since pokertracker started 'autorating players' I wondered which of the profile types was winning the most $. My database has about 8000 hands in it, not a lot but this isn't about my own stats. Its about everyone elses.

Only rating players with 30+ hands played in my database, I have a wide spectrum of player types. Using the filter option I can see how each group does on the summary page.

The 4 groups who lose the money:

sLP-P (-8 BB per 100 hands)
sLA-P (-6 BB per 100 hands)
LA-P and LP-P (-5 BB per 100 hands)
Maniac (-1 BB per 100 hands)


Then there is a group who roughly break even
TP-P. LP-A, TA-P, TA-N

Now the surprising part
TA-A, the group I've been trying to emulate win 3BB/100
TP-A do about the same.
sLP-A win twice as much, near to 7BB/100 and
sLA-A win twice as much as that, 14BB/100!!

BUT streaks ahead are LA-A who win 22BB/100 hands !?!!?
Of all the LA-A players in my databse, 80% are winners.

These are aggressive players with a VP$IP averaging 45%?!?!

Pokertracker seems to be telling me:

Be aggressive, be very aggressive, and play one hand in every two! Can this be true? Surely not

I must be missing something obvious here. What is it??

(Ratings based on 8,000 hands involving 7-10 players at a mixture of limits, $0.5/$1 $1/$2 and $2/$4)

[bisonbison]

Go ahead and play 25% of your hands. Let us know how that works out for you.

[sublime]

Go ahead and play 25% of your hands. Let us know how that works out for you.

ummm didnt Astroglide play almost that many? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[sublime]

I must be missing something obvious here. What is it??

its SOOOO obvious, just read the last statement you made!!! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Post this stuff in the general forum

[bisonbison]

ummm didnt Astroglide play almost that many?

Everyone on this forum who thinks they can play as well as Astroglide, please take one step forward. Not so fast, 99% of you.

[sublime]

Everyone on this forum who thinks they can play as well as Astroglide, please take one step forward. Not so fast, 99% of you.

You know I was kidding, right? [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[donkeyradish]

Um well thanks for the suggestion but it goes against all my instincts

My VP$IP is 12% and I thought I was doing fine till I looked at those stats.

How do LA-A players look in your database bisonbison?

[bisonbison]

You know I was kidding, right?

I do not have a sense of humor.

[bisonbison]

How do LA-A players look in your database bisonbison?

It doesn't matter.

[sublime]

I do not have a sense of humor.

how do you survive your trips to the bathroom?