Wondering what are considered target cold-call percentage for a TAG. I'm a 19/14, my cold call is 10.3%, which I'm pretty sure is high.

I'm more apt to cold call hands like AJ/KQ from the blinds against a steal instead of blowing them away with a 3bet - this is part of it. And I also CC in position with speculative hands, ofc.

So are other winning players CCing this much, or should I be working on finding spots to lower this?

There is no correct range for anything in a vacuum. There are only +EV adjustments. Your range is dictated by position, pot odds, and villains' ranges.

Play around with Pokerstove, Equilab or some equivalent program and compare ranges. Responding to a LAG open is clearly a different range than responding to a TAG open.

Is there a specific situation that you have a question about?

EDIT: Clearly I'm not understanding your question here.

as long as youre doing it from the btn it's probably okay

10% sounds very high, i'm going to guess you cold call too wide from mp and stuff like that

Instead of looking at cold call %, you might want to look at the gap between PFR and VPIP.

For example, most solid winners will have stats such as

TAG:14/12/4.3% 3bet
LAG: 17/15/5.4% 3bet



Before you call with AQ/KQ on BB, think if the stealer call resteals light and try to get some value( if you can) with AQ/KQ by 3betting.

Also, cold calling becomes increasingly unprofitable as you move up stakes because good players like to squeeze alot, and many times you won't even see a flop if you choose to cold call, and that is why solid players have a tight gap between PFR and VPIP.

EDIT: Also saw # of posts OP made, so might also not be understanding his question.

you'll get a much more interesting discussion if you just create a situation and then show your ENTIRE cold-calling range.

This isnt always true though and I think it was wooz who wrote a blog post quite a while back saying more and more people were widening this gap as they could crush people post flop.

I guess a massive generalization would be if you play ok post flop then keep it tight but if you have a massive edge post flop then you can probably cold call more than other players. Instinctively if you are that good then you will know what are good spots to cold call in.

mtagliaf, Im averaging about 8% at the moment and most of my cold calls come in the CO/BTN/Blinds situations.

wow, i just checked my cc% just out of interest, and it's 5.8% this year; 6.9% from the btn :/. and i thought i cc'ed way more than most people...

should probably try and fix that.

I started a similar thread on this recently as I too felt my CC was high compared to mpethy's stats analysis thread.

I cold call a lot vs a tight opener in MP when I have the btn if there is a fish in the blinds who'll come along that I can dominate. i find in these spots MP is gonna play fairly straight forward multiway and we can ususally take the pot away or at least get heads up against a fish whom we will dominate a lot.