Just played my first session, implementing this immediately with great results.
Went really smooth and felt a lot more in control of pots. I will post another graph at 20k hands. Thanks again, your advice is absolutely spot on.

Hi Arty,

first of all, thanks very much for your response! (and all the responses to other people, wich are very insightful too..)

I think u didnt get me right there^^ What i meant was, my redline was going up and my blueline was going down due to the fact that i was bluffing too much and got called too often. But now i got the standard "blueline up redline down" graph.


You are totally right! I was using Charts from Ginders manual as a starting point, wich are kinda tight from early positions. (If i recall right, it should be like ~10.5% from EP) Button RFI was about 47ish.
After reading your response, i decided to change my preflop strategy and bought the ranges from Adam Jones (w34z3l). So in my new ranges im playing slightly under 14% from EP, 18.5% from MP. The BTN RFI however is still about 47.5%.. Is that too much for my limit/skill level?
Im also a little concerned about the polarized 3bet ranges provided there. Is it ok to play these on my micro limits, or is it just a waste of equity?


I deleted the Call preflop 3-bet, but im unable to find the other two.. I think some other poster mentioned that he cant find them too. Is it possible, that they are downloaded stats?


I hope the new ranges will fix this problem, i will post my stats again after some k hands.

You are totally right. OOP im barreling TPish holdings on flop and turn, getting scared on the river^^ Most of the time im betting these because im thinking, i dont wanna give villain his equity for free..
I also noticed, i close to never x/r. Ill try to get that in too (should also result in my cbetting frequency getting lower OOP, right?)

If you dont know which ranges im talking about pls ask

47.5% RFI on BTN might be OK or even good. It depends what your player pool is like. I prefer going with about 42%, but it doesn't make much difference. All the hands at the bottom of a 40%-50% range are basically breakeven.
You'll have to remind me what Weazel's 3-betting ranges look like. I think it's good to polarize IP, but I can't remember which hands he used to recommend. I think you should mostly stick with suited aces, Broadways and SCs, not random stuff like 96s, if that's what his chart features. Also, don't bluff 3-bet very often vs UTG/MP. You get called too often (by pairs, and AQ/AJ/KQ) in the micros.
Possibly. I don't know how PT4 works. I just know that some of the default stats are useless.
Good luck with the new ranges!

Hi, everyone. Just starting cash game at 2NL. Took a shot at 5NL but went bad. This is my first sample from beginnig of march untill yesterday. Hope to find some leaks from anyone who could help me find it. Thank you so much. Gl all.

Stats 01

https://gyazo.com/4084e1f9ecd617c8cfe1b4466be3e153

Stats 02

https://gyazo.com/878f33b10eb4c554b30c36fcfd1c0808

By position

https://gyazo.com/718905897bfc89f1893fa26f57da5d86

Hi guys,

Used to play tournaments but recently switched to 6max as its so much nicer and more convenient to play. Managed to beat 10NL at 10bb/100 over 30000 hands (small sample size I know) and recently moved up to 25NL where i'm pretty much breakeven over the same amount, not sure if its variance or getting crushed by the superior 25NL regs - prolly a bit of both. Got a feeling I may be folding to 3Bets preflop too much and my RFI ranges look a little bit dodgy, any feedback on the stats would be much appreciated!

Cheers

RFI's: https://imgur.com/nHcuOYD

Graph: https://imgur.com/Fe0jbei

Position Stats: https://imgur.com/kJYnuRW

Results and WTSD/WSD: https://imgur.com/3PKdroz

10nlz this year. I'm overrolled for the stake but I'd like to fix some leaks before I move up. I'm kinda concerned by my high WSD and river call efficiency, but I'm running so much over EV atm so maybe they will go down. I'm aware of slightly overfolding vs. 3 bets, though some of it is due to people not 3 betting enough or 3 betting too big. My vpip/pfr is on the nitty side nowadays but I'm not sure I'm good enough to expand my ranges. Thanks for any input.

I don't know if I would describe you as nitty. Pre-flop I would have you pegged as TAG and perhaps veering into LAG territory but not quite there.

I don't really know what constitutes as a leak these days. Perhaps an exploit that works versus the majority of players is not a leak until it starts to become exploited.

So personally if I were sitting at your 6-max table and had access to your stats, I would know that your RFI is significantly higher when you are SB, CO, and BU, so you're obviously a good positionally aware TAG, which means I can now exploit you via light 3-betting. Now depending on whether and how good you adjust to me doing this to you is a different story. And if there are no "me's" at the table, then your tendency to play positionally aware will never get exploited and you can continue doing so until someone pushes back.

Perhaps the "next level" is refining a 3-betting range?

As I am also in this stage of my game, it looks as if your 3betting range is pretty in-line, which is a way of saying that you are too predictable there. Although people's 2bets at your current level are probably stronger than the next level, it's time to start developing the 3bet range a little wider and practice catching people who are 2betting light.

Stat-wise I cannot see much to exploit.

Since you seem to play a pretty solid balanced post-flop game to the river, I may employ the 1/3 to 1/2 betting strategy to try and get more value on my bluffs.

Since your river calling strategy looks balanced, and as you said yourself weighted towards value calls, I can probably achieve folds at a higher frequency with 1/2 pot bets when you are very marginal and should probably call, you may fold to lower sizings.

^That is my only "exploit," so to speak. To where I may bet pot or 1.5 pot on a bluff for an unknown, I may go 3/4 POT or 1/2 POT for you because I know a higher bet probably doesn't achieve a higher percentage fold since you play more solid than average.

Firstly, thanks for using HEM and including lots of useful stats.
There's nothing horrendous in your numbers (and you also ran a bit below EV, so you're probably more of a breakeven, rather than losing, player at the moment). Nevertheless, there are a few stats that deviate from what I'd consider optimal.
3-bet could be a little higher, as it's pretty hard in today's games to win with a 3-bet of less than 5%. Add a few more hands to your default SBvBTN 3-bet range imo.
RFI/UO numbers are fine, except for the BTN where you might be playing too loose for your current skill level. Opening 50% means you're folding to 3-bets pretty often and your BTN winrate is a fair bit lower than average. I hope you're only opening for 2.5x or less, because otherwise (e.g. with 3bb opens) it's gonna continue to be a problem trying to make 50% of hands +EV. I'd recommend cutting back to a default BTN RFI of 45% or so.
Your c-betting strat has issues. Firstly, you're c-betting too often, especially in UTG/MP (where you should be checking more than betting if you're OOP), and the high c-bet frequency means you check-fold too often (60% check-fold is about 10% too high), meaning you're quite exploitable. You need to learn how to check-call (and check-raise a bit more too) as the PFR or the pre-flop caller.
C-betting 76% in the SB is definitely a problem. You shouldn't be bloating the pot OOP very often, except when you're the 3-bettor. I think this is partly why you're losing 40bb/100 in that position. (It's only a small sample, so don't get too worried about your losses in the blinds just yet. Variance is a big factor).
Being one-and-done (a low turn c-bet) is a major cause of redline losses. In many spots, you're literally better off check-folding the flop, than c-betting once and giving up.
The WWSF Rating of <1.00 is a bit worrying. It's not impossible to make money with a low WWSF, but it's hard. You've got to find ways to win more pots. 3-betting a bit more and then picking the best hands to value-bet or bluff (or to check in order to induce bluffs that you pick off) could offer improvements in that regard. You'll get better with bluffing with experience.
WTSD is a bit low and I think it's mainly due to the high c-bet and the high check-fold. (You're quite "fit or fold"). You're not really giving villain a chance to make bluffs if you c-bet and barrel your mid-strength hands. Weak top pairs and middle pairs are the kind of hands that do well as check-calls or check backs on the flop, so I'd look into improving your c-betting strat.
I think it's the flop strat that needs the most work. Pre-flop is fairly good. Maybe reduce your BTN opens a bit, and do a little more 3-betting, but it's the flop strat where you should focus. Don't fire money into the abyss with hopeless hands. Try and pick the combos that definitely make more money as bets than checks.
Overall, you're not doing too badly though. GL!

Pre-flop stats are fine. I like your RFI numbers.
In fact, there's nothing that looks obviously bad in any of the stats. As usual, however, some of PT's default positional stats are next to useless in this context. Can you find the correct stat for "2b pre and fold to 3bet"? Without it, it's very hard to say if you're calling/folding too much to 3-bets. The number PT gives for "call 3-bet" is just stupid, since it includes spots where there's a raise and 3-bet even before the action reaches you.

I noticed that you ran spectacularly badly at the end of your sample. You were doing reasonably well up till then. It appears that up till now, variance has played a bigger role in the results than any obvious leaks.

Pre-flop looks very solid with good RFI numbers, 3-bet percentages, and (low) calling frequencies. I don't think you're folding to 3-bets too often, at least at these stakes. Positional winrates all look very reasonable.
The W@SD numbers are surprisingly high, and that can definitely be partly due to running well, but they also arise from good play. RCE is ludicrously high for now, but it will no doubt go down without you changing anything. (I'm not sure how aggro/spewy the Party pools are, but you might have just run well vs the aggrobots in this sample).
I've tried really hard to find a potential leak in the numbers, but I honestly can't see anything. Your fold to river c-bet is a little high in comparison to "GTO", but I presume your opponents are value-heavy when they triple barrel, so it's not like folding the river is costing you chunks.
You don't seem to be obviously exploitable to any great degree, and there's nothing I can really recommend as a focus for improvement. I'd be chuffed to bits if my stats looked like yours! Nice work, and good luck with moving up!

No words to demonstrate my gratitude for your complete analysis, Arty. Thank you very much. For sure, i'll try to adjust everything you point it. Really apreciatte for your atention. Gl and congratz for the amazing job you are doing here.

thanks a lot man! You are the hero of this thread.
I feel like many players will overdo some exploit spots like delay cbet double barrel too wide and run into my x/c range. Maybe trading these probe bet spots with check/calls vs aggro regs is contributing to the high RCE as it's easy for them to overbluff. They seem to be more cautious when 3 barreling. Either way I'm running well atm and I will keep an eye on my river stats without making immediate changes.

Hey Arty,

just wanted to say THANK YOU for your great advice!
Took some days off from the tables to study and started implementing a few changes you suggested which brought me awesome results so far. Could be on a heater aswell...

Here are my stats for the last week (2NL / 5NL Zoom):

Thanks Arty! Absolute legend. I'm struggling to import stats with a report in my PT right now for some reason although I did not realize that the default call 3bet stat did that, I was probably reading too much into it being low as a result. Been on a bit of a heater since I posted so hopefully you're right about it being variance, let the grind continue.

I'm glad some of you have seen almost immediate improvements. If it's not just heaters and you're still crushing in another 25,000 hands, I could do with some coaching!

The only thing that stands out after a quick glance is that your 3 bet % is very low. I am 3 betting at about 9-10% or more and having success at those stakes. I make it a point to 3 bet from the HJ, CO, and SB a bit more than other positions for obvious reasons. I also FOLD to 3 bets behind me quite often in the absence of other information.

Hey, Joe. Thanks for reply. That's my numbers after Arty review.

https://gyazo.com/e8c9293fa5d6758a0f9540c086d58948

Still struggling on 3bet more but reduce my cbet from sb/OP in general. Trying to define a range to reach the 8-10% 3bet but i'm playing to tight. I guess mental game got a point on this. Further more, calling 3bet is still a problem too. Although I'm still a little profitable at NL2, at NL5, however, it doesn't go well so far, besides the low sample. Fold premium hands pre is another point. It just killing me have to fold Queens or even Kings pref, but calling 4 or even 3bets with kings, is taking my stack to zero a lot times. Dont know if at higher limits field 3bet all in more light, but down here it looks like this doesn't happen so often. Try to work on this. Thanks again.

Hey guys!

Long story short, after 4 years without playing online poker i am back at it. I used to play zoom FR NL25 (4-5bb/100) taking shots at NL50. Currently I am playing NL16 Zoom 6 - max, but I have found a more aggro pool of players. I am having a hard time (still the sample is just 35k hands) but I am currently not winning.

If you could check out my general stats and find any leak that would be great. Also, off topic, any book you recommend for 6 - max online?

https://ibb.co/Jr1K5Cx
https://ibb.co/rMk2NcX

By position:

https://ibb.co/m65JYhn

Hi there,

this is NL10 zoom this year so far after being a full time pro 2010-2012 with 6bb @ FR NL100 who wants to start a little comeback at 6max on zoom. Games got a lot tougher even on NL10 and I felt a little bit lost so far. Would be great if you guys have a look on my stats

Thx a lot





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You're a good student. Your VPIP/PFR/3-bet and Fold to 3-bet numbers are very close to how I played at 2NLz/5NLz. I'm glad you've got an EV winrate there. If you stay solid pre-flop, you'll get better at post-flop with experience and then you'll beat 5NLz (which is actually quite a tricky limit to win on, in comparison to 2NL).

I could do with a few more stats, like EVbb/100, cold-call percentages, and fold to 3-bet, by position, but there's nothing in your numbers that looks really terrible. (In HEM I like to use the POSITION report and add ALL the good stats to that report, so that I can see betting, calling and folding frequencies in every position. Doing so can highlight potential leaks, like c-betting too much in EP, and/or not enough on the button).
From what I've heard, 16NLz is quite spewy and some say it's softer than 10NL for that reason, but I haven't played that limit myself.

As for some numbers that are a little out of line...
You can open more hands UTG, as 12% is a bit too nitty.
WWSF is worryingly low at 42%. I note that your river call efficiency is only slightly above 1.0, but I'm not entirely convinced that being too stationy is the cause. I think you're just not taking enough stabs on the flop and turn, as your overall aggression and flop/turn c-bet numbers are quite low. I don't know if you've adopted a smaller c-bet size, but you can bet quite a bit more often on the early streets if you go smaller, and then villain doesn't get to realize his equity and put you in difficult river spots.
You should possibly fold to a few more c-bets (get it nearer 50%). I'd really like to see the numbers for that stat by position. The folding frequency should be a fair bit higher in the blinds, in comparison to the button, where you can float more. Your (passive?) BB play might be dragging down your overall results, but it's impossible to say without comparing stats by position. Your BTN results are also quite bad. I think your VPIP there might be a little too high, probably with too much calling pre. (For comparison, my BTN VPIP is only 25.5%, and yet I have an EV of 30bb/100 there). Only winning 45% of the time at showdown on the button is quite concerning. Variance has no doubt played a part though. It's weird how often people have "bad" winrates on the button even over samples of this kind of size.

I'm sorry I can't be more precise in what you should be working on. If you can post a positional report with more stats - like in the post I'm about to make - that would help me identify specific problem areas.

Note to people using HEM.

It would make my job a lot easier if you just use the POSITION report and add all the following stats to it (click the STATS button on the left and then type them in the search box and press the green arrow to add them). With these numbers, I can get just about all the info I need from one screengrab, and then do the analysis much more quickly. It's so much easier to find leaks if all the numbers are included on one report.

Ty Arti

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Here are my stats for NL2 6 max on Pokerstars after my first month of playing. I think that I play way too many hands from the blinds, but any advice is welcomed

Hi All, so I reached my first major milestone, 10K hands...

I started about 10 days ago, have been reading the forums, articles and a book (Master Micro Stakes Poker by Alton Hardin) and you guys have also given me some great help in response to a couple of posts I made here.

Whilst I am a bit nervous about posting stats, I wont learn if I don't ask and put myself out there for review so here goes. I tried my best to align the stats in the way requested in this post - please feel free to be brutally honest

Should note these are all 6max cash games at the micro stakes with a combination of zoom and standard.



Thanks for your time and honesty,

Cheers
Naz