🎰 Aggression - Holdem [email protected]

Remember: people who cold-call a preflop bet are often in fit-or-fold mode. Remember: these hands play best in a multiway, unraised pot, or as a steal move. Good explanations: the raise was very small, villain is passive post-flop, I had position on villain, villain and I are both extremely deep-stacked, villain is incredibly aggressive preflop, my suited connectors are particularly strong, there are several cold-callers in front of me, etc. Both images show mediocre results and the heads-up play is something I should focus on. However, circumstances need to be very specific for a check-raise to be appropriate.{/INSERTKEYS}{/PARAGRAPH} Continuation betting should be your default play. As a result, calling should be an infrequent occurrence in your play, which gives you a large aggression factor. My analysis will be based on the hands I played this year at 6-max No Limit poker tables , hands. My postflop game really needs improvement. Scroll down. Filter for cold-calling and see if you had good reasons for doing so, keeping in mind that the reasons need to be even stronger than for suited connectors. If either of these numbers is lower than While I am defending my blinds against stealers, I actually manage to show significant profits! Look over individual hands where you lose lots of money and see if you played too timidly early in the hand, or if you went too far unimproved in the face of resistance. You should always be looking to see if you can raise or fold; only if you have a good reason why you CANNOT raise or fold should you call. If you have any glaringly negative numbers, especially AA, it may indicate bad play. Your default play here should be to fold weak suited connectors and reraise strong ones. See, aggression is a relative term; it should be a function of your level of looseness. Also, look at the hands where you won to see if you played too timidly, or if you routinely forced weaker hands out when you should have been milking them for profits. Of the times you cold-called, you should be able to come up with a specific explanation for why you did so in each and every one of them. If you raised preflop, you need a good reason NOT to raise the flop. Is this number positive? No leak there. My Att. No-limit is not a game where you can call frequently and turn a profit. {PARAGRAPH}{INSERTKEYS}If you do have the application you can check your own stats in the end or you can simply see how a poker player can improve his skills by studying himself. My general guideline is that you should raise at least half the hands you play, from every position on the table. You should see that VPIP steadily dropping the farther you get from the button. Perhaps if someone could share his own numbers as a comment, we could have a better idea of where I stand. If not, it could be an indicator that you have trouble when you are not the aggressor preflop, especially without padding in the pot. That shows your per-hand winrate on blind steals.