It's around 27/23 over the last 3000 hands so I have started to losen up a bit. My nitty tendancies are the main reason for switching over to 6max

Csaba: 6max LHE is not a good game for nits

What I meant is I'm playing 6max to try and learn a more laggy style

Ok, so you should fold way less your BB. It will pump your VPIP some points

and be more loose OTB, 3bet more, steal more

Just jam the raise button

Csaba:

You're beyond a doubt running superbad in your small sample. If you have a W$SD of 49% when you go to showdown 37% at 0.25/0.5 you have been almost magically unlucky.

Edit: You have a huge leak in your turn continuation betting though. You can't literally bet any turn when you Pfraised.

Thanks for the responses everyone.

This is something that I've been thinking is a problem for a while. I'm never sure when a second barrell is appropriate and I tend to default into firing one then checking behind on the river.

Always you bet is for one of two reasons:

a) getting value
b) getting better hands to fold

keep that in mind, its quite obvious but really important

I don't mind if better hands fold if I have no intention of calling a bet, if they bet after they see me check. Also, in a lot of pots I don't mind if worse hands with 6+ outs fold. I get your point, but there are other reasons.

I'd check your folding to steal in SB in this should be 80% or so you either 3 bet or fold a lot. Positionally that makes your sb VPIP/PFR very close together and yours are a bit wide I think. This helps make up some losses in the small blind. Your in 2/5 structure not 1/2 as at other limits. So you should be pretty tight in the small blind. This helps get the small blind down to only a smallish drain for me. BB seems to mirror running hotter or colder a lot. So some may be just the run bad. Not hitting a pair and OOP is a bad combo to have much success.

Definite focus on the blinds though your almost has good just folding every blind, 50bb/100 would be the result I think and your at 48.12. Mine runs 23/100 when I run bad ... have to check it for this month. Other positions look good.

Hi all,

My first post will aim to show my stats. I play 0.5/1 and I'm down more than 200 BB over 17000 hands.
I hate blaming luck, but the issue is that I cannot point out the leak in my game (nothing very original...).

Below are the stats. Thanks for the time you'll spend to answer.




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ur stats look normal. it might be your table selection that sucks.

also, if you are new to stars, it is well documented that when you start playing, you lose a lot of money before you start winning. Consider it PS's hazing initiation.

Thanks for your reply.

I just want to highlight that I'm new to this limit, but not to poker (I've 3 years winning history) and that I do not play on Stars.

About table selecting, it might be part of the issue but I try to respect the basics (not having an aggressive player to my right, try to have at least two passive player at each table,etc...). I think I'm not that good postflop, but I'm still surprised I loose so much :-(

I dont think table selecting should be a big issue playing on .5/1$

Hey guys,
Heres my recent stats, any advice is much appreciated



Thanks

dredok, table selecting matters basically everywhere. You're winning more money than you would had you been surrounded around stronger opponents.

<mtrebus> you're fold bb to steal seems too high. I'm pretty sure PT3 stat is lower than HEM stat. So defend your bb more.

<jell> you're fold bb to steal hu seems too high. other than that I'd imagine that you're bleeding bets post flop somehow. You could try stealing more too.

ofc it does matter a lot. But I dont think table selecting is *the issue* playing on .5/1$

Thanks for the response but isn't the bit in bold incorrect?

HEM works on big blinds/100 so folding every big blind would result in a loss of 100bb/100 hands. Or am I making a silly mistake here?

actually in your picture you show bb/100.

dmyers got confused because LHE players usually display BB/100 instead.

Isn't Jell's fold to raise on all streets too high? Seems like you are bluffing a lot.

To be honnest, I think that my fold to bet on some streets is too high too.
But my WTSD is 39%, which is normal according to the forum standards.

So what to conclude?

I think 39% may be too high at .50/$1 as the games in general are much more passive/predictable. I know La Peste prob disagrees and i havent played those stakes in a long time.

lol, I played some 50c/1 and 1/2 and my WTSD was 45% in those games.

sample size?

i'm with JP that you don't you shouldn't need to get to showdown that often at those stakes