ok i have been trying to fix my redline disease for a while now, I have to admit my graph looks a lot like gallo's posted above. having read this thread i have to admit i am still leaking from the blinds despite everything i try. I am losing 19 PTBB/100 = 38bb/100 from the big blind and worse 32bb/100 from the small blind.
so i followed your advice and, starting with the big blind only, i went through every group of hands i am calling in the bb with separately against raises from steal posns and non steal posns.
i wont post the whole chart here but;
v steals, I am positive or at least better than the -1bb i would achieve by folding in ALL categories (even junk)
except TT JJ and QQ. This has been alluded to before and obv i need to look at how i am playing those post flop to at least realise my equity in these. But apart from playing those hands better i dont see how cutting out any categories is improving things.
v non steal posn raises, there are a couple of categories that are a problem that I am frankly surprised i have called with at all as i should know better, so i can make an improvemnt there which is good
here is a summary against both types of raises;
any comments on the breakdown v each type? I will get in first and say i am surprised at the low 3bet% v non steal posn raises so clearly i have to up the 3bet and lower the calls here. how about v steal raises?
So how to reduce my lossrate from 38 to 28 or better still 22?
your advice is alwys 'call less' but looking at that chart i have to say it is the figures in the "I folded" row that are more the problem that the "I called"
over 100 hands at Fr we post 11 big blinds or 11bb. assuming we fold 9 of these times (vip=18%) that means in the two times we play we have to win 6.8 bb to make up for the 9 we lose when we fold (to achieve your target of a net -22bb/100), which is 3.4bb /
hand on average every time we play.
How the hell do people do that? 3 betting a single raiser only nets that if it is successful 100% of the time, which they never are, so it cant be achieved by 3 betting. how about by calling and playing post flop? how many hands can you achieve 3.4bb/hand with full stop, let alone out of position?
playing 3 hands out of 11 reduces the win rate required from those 3 hands to a more manageable 1.9bb/hand but obv adding more weak hands to the calling range cant be right, so to achive this we would have to jump the 3 bet up to about 17% which is kinda over the top.
maybe squeezing more is the only thing i can think of. will have to look at that.
anyway thanks for taking the time to answer all these posts and any comments or help will be appreciated.
I will do the small blind analysis next...
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