One month and little improvement....

[Paxosmotic]

Why limp more hands on the button? You have position with a strong hand. Raise. Your raise first in on the button is below 10%, how is that even possible. If it's folded to you on the button and you want to play a hand, shouldn't your raise first in be in the neighborhood of, oh I don't know, 100%? If PT calculates that statistic differently and 100% isn't possible, I apologize, but if you're going to play a hand on the button and it's folded to you, that's a raise every time. If anything, limping in invites a raise from the big blind and if you're playing relatively weak, you're folding to a lot of bluffs.

If you want your PFR% higher I'd suggest raising more hands pre-flop, that's always a good idea. The main thing is raising first in, there's a shitload of chances to do it. I'm a little looser pre-flop than most people but if you plan on playing a hand and it's folded to you, it's almost always going to be a raising situation. Your mileage may vary, of course.

Judging from your stats you're pretty clearly a winning player. I think the fact that 1.34bb/100 isn't good enough for you is promising that you're going to start terrorizing people at 3/6 as soon as you fix little problems. You have the right attitude, that's for sure.

[ihardlyknowher]

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Im just not sure how to get my PFR % up.

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Raise more before the flop. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[JTG51]

You definitely should be playing more hands in LP. Try over limping on the button with lots more hands like 75s. Also, you should probably be raising in LP after one or two bad limpers with more hands like KJo and ATo.

[Doctavian]

Dear Vipon,

I am writing this post as a friend. First I should say that I maticulously monitor my game. But even that being the case, what in the world is it, with you and all of these stats!

Here are the stats that I keep.(I have been playing on a fairly regular basis for a decade)

1. Am I playing each day, at what is probaly the most productive game in the casino? I personaly prefer tables with lots of callers and few pre flop raisers. We all know this. But do we periodicaly get up and watch the other tables from afar to see if we should switch tables? If the action at our table slows, or the betting or raising tendencies (of the table that we are at changes) are we ready to switch tables. I have found that the table I play at is the most important factor in determening how much money I average making each day. BAR NONE!

2,. Question number two.

Have my calling requirements slipped. The biggest mistake, that most all players make, is to slip and play marginal hands out of position. My motto is that: It is easy to loose a rack of chips at holdem, but hard work to win one.
Two loose hands, played out of position (that end up getting dominated) can end up costing you 6 hours of work!


3. Am I putting in the extra hours of preperation needed, to keep myself competative?


Try this experiment. Get Sklansky and Millers book "Low limit holdem". Then get a tape recorder. (Soney has a nice one for $20.) Read the book outloud, and simultaniously tape it onto a set of casset tapes. When you are in your car, or when you work out, or what ever listen to that book on your recorder or Walkman. Listen to the entire audio book 7 times.

4. Then buy one of the computer simulated holdem games. And in your spare time play and hour or so each day against cyber opponents.

5. After doing each of the above mentioned exercises, set up a seperate Poker bank account. And keep a poker wallet in your car, to only store your poker money in. Each time you reach $1000 dollars in profits in your wallet, transfer half of the money into a seperate poker bank account.

6. Plan on going with a friend to Hawaii a year from now paid for with the money you won at Poker. DO NOT go to Aruba.

If you continue to generate less money than you feel that you deserve,continue to return to this forum. Bring all of the stats you want. There are many excellent poker minds here many much more giftyed than mine. And one way or another they WILL solve your problem for you.

May all of your flushes be straight, and may all of your houses be full!




Good luck and God bless,

Doctavian

PS. Another thing that I monitor is opponents game stratagies. When I leave the casino I pull out my tape recorder and dictate the weaknesses and strengths of one or more of the opponents that I competed against that day.

I would appreciate learning from some of the other forum members just what, are some of the different things are that they monitor about their games.

[JTG51]

You remind me of a more coherent elysium.

[Doctavian]

Dear Vipon,

When I saw your stats I wasn't aware that you were pulling them from you internet play. Foolish me!

The comments in my post were obviously more relevent for live action games.

I am sorry if they weren't pertanent for your question.

Some years ago I use to play on the internet fairly regularly. One of my tricks was to keep a rolla-dex with a card for each player that commonly played at the level I was playing.

As the game progressed I use to write on the players cards the specific playing flaws and strengths of each opponent. (I told you that I was maticulous.)

Then days later when I joined a table. I would go through my rolla-dex and pull out the cards describing the playing characteristics of each opponent and stick them under a rubber band around the computer screen.. That seemed to give me an advantage over quite a few of my cyber opponents.

Best of luck,

Doctavian

[eleventy]

Wow you have a Tape Recorder and a Rolla-dex. Do you use an Abacus to figure pot odds?

[jba]

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Wow you have a Tape Recorder and a Rolla-dex. Do you use an Abacus to figure pot odds?

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haha vnh

[deception5]

It looks like you are not taking advantage of your position. The fact that your vp$ip numbers are 14% from every position means that you are playing the same set of hands regardless and ignoring your position preflop.

I think you would benefit tremendously from some shorthanded play.

[sy_or_bust]

You're missing loads of profit by not exploiting position at all. This is your leak (other than poor blind play). You probably are a 1.5BB/100 player with this style.

You often shouldn't be limping so much in EP, you should evaluate what you play in MP, and you really need to loosen up in LP and especially in blindsteal situations. Right now you're ignoring position for your preflop decisions, which is a bad idea. If you loosened up this way, your PFR would rise significantly, and your winrate with it.