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Originally Posted by fluker824
hi
I have been grinding in 2nl with 4-6 tables for like 1 and half months now. I m planing to move up the limit once I hit $200 on my bankroll. I got around $160 now.
I just want to see if there is any major leak in my play so I can fix it before I move up. Well here is my stats:
Thanks for your input
Fluker, sorry for the delay; I thought i responded to this yesterday.
Button stats: look good, ATS is too low. aim for 35%
CO stats: look good--don't expect your winrate to stay that high.
check your by position ATS to make sure it is up around 30-35%
You are maybe calling a bit too much
HJ: looks good
MP you are definitely calling too much
EP: You are limping a lot; I'm not sure I have a problm with this at $2.
As a result of all of the calling and limping you are doing, your vpip/pfr is at 15/7, which is more passive than we typically like to see. But it is definitely a winning strategy at $2. The way to change this up as you move up stakes will be to cut out a lot of the cold-calling preflop raises and EP limping--this would change you to about a 12/10 as you hit NL $25.
You should be working on a few of the fundamental flaws in your game that your stats disclose:
1. You are way too tight passive in the BB, and way too loose passive in the small blind. the small blind is a major leak for you. Don't complete with just a2c; and RAISE to steal a lot if there was only 1 limper ahead of you.
I recently did a 100% VPIP challenge at NL $2. People said 100% was impossible b/c of all the limped pots you would see in the BB. So i thought, well, ok, I'll just raise 100% in the BB when it is limped to me, and the hand will count as a vpip. as it turned out, the big preflop raise took down about 85% of the pots that had been limped to me. The moral of the story is that the level plays fairly weakly, in general, and a big raise preflop will fold out a lot of limpers a lot of the time. The only people who adjusted to me doing this in the BB seemed to be in the small blind, and they adjusted by folding preflop rather than complete and face the big raise; as a result, my VPIP was 96%--which translates to 4 walks in the BB in 500 hands.
2. Your W$WSF is too low. This is a result of you playing so many pots where you have limped behind or called a PFR--situations that force you to play fit or fold poker, for the most part. Look for spots where you called in position and have an opportunity to steal the pot. say UTG raises and you call on the button with 98s. Flop comes with an A or a K. villain checks. If villain is a passive or tight player, consider betting here--you will fold JJ, TT, QQ a lot of the time. Resist the urge to play only fit or fold poker in position--you have to steal some of the pots on flops you miss. Don't go crazy, but make sure you are always looking for spots to do this.
3. Your W$SD is right on the edge of being low. Because you are a new player, I suspect that you are maybe calling too often on the river when you are behind. Review your hands and look for spots where you should have folded earlier--maybe even preflop.
I think you would close to double your winrate if you double your steals, increase your W$WSF to 40% by trimming out some of the more speculative hands you call or limp with, and finding maybe 2 or 3 more good river folds per 100 showdowns.
all in all i think your stats are good--you are definitely on the right track, but make the adjustments I have discussed as you move up, so that by the time you hit NL $25 you are playing a solid 13/10 or 12/10 game and you can look to open up from there.