Poker Statistics: VPIP – the percentage of the hands played
VPIP (Voluntarily put money in pot, sometimes indicated as VP$IP) shows what percentage of hands is voluntarily played by the opponent during the pre – flop. This indicator includes all hands when the opponent enters with a call i.e. limp or call – raise, or raises himself. It does not include the game during the blinds since they are not bets made voluntarily.
For a tight – aggressive short stack player when the table is big this indicator should be within 8 to 12 %. Very tight players usually are considered the ones with VPIP less than 20 % and very loose players the ones with VPIP more than 40 %. In other words, the higher the percentage, the looser are players. In case you have VPIP less than 7 %, that means you play too careful and that will reduce your profit. If you play with a large stack, your VPIP should increase with about 5 %. If you play against 5 – 6 players, your VPIP should increase with 3 or 4 % as well.
Statistics in poker
We start today a new series of short articles about one of the main topic concerning any poker game – statistics.
Using a game statistics in poker is one of the most important things in order to win. Statistics can be used in two ways: first, your own statistics is very important instrument in order to improve your own game, to analyze your own mistakes or successful moves; second, the statistics relative to your opponents is also important since it helps you to make right decisions.
Let’s see the main statistic indicators and how are they going to help you.
- Poker pre – flop statistic indicators
- VPIP – the percentage of the hands played
- PFR – the percentage of cases when the opponent raises
- ATS – how often the opponent tries to steal the blinds
- Fold SB to Steal – how often the opponent allows his SB to be stolen
- Fold BB to Steal – how often the opponent allows his SB to be stolen
- Some additional indicators
- Poker post flop statistic indicators
- The indicators you need to consider
- How really important is the statistics
Daniel Negreanu
Being a poker pro looks like the greatest job in the world, right? Daniel Negreanu is for sure one of the most entertaining and successful players today, he has fun and communicates fun to his audience. Likely this is one of the reasons why you can very often watch him on TV playing some tournament somewhere.
Daniel Negreanu aka “Kid Poker” is a real star in the poker world and is definitely one of the best up-and-coming poker players on the tournament scene.
Daniel Negreanu, who was born in 1974 in Toronto, Canada, is a professional poker gambler with a lot of skills. At the age of 21, he left school and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada like a lot of poker players. He is a great tournament player and he proves it with his profitable game.
In 1998, Daniel Negreanu appeared for the first time in the World Series of Poker. Surprisingly, he won the Pot Limit Texas Holdem Tournament at the age of 23. He was the youngest player to win a bracelet at that time. This incredible success attracted the attention of the other gamblers and soon Daniel earned the name Kid Poker.
Continue readingOnline Bingo – The New Poker?
Firstly let us reassure you that we are not suggesting that online bingo is as intellectually challenging as is online poker; we confer that in terms of skill levels poker is by far the most demanding of the two, though in both poker and bingo a little bit of luck can go a long way. When we suggest that online bingo might be the next online poker, we are talking about its popularity amongst online gamers along with the revenue it generates for online bingo operators.
It is interesting to note that although the growth of online poker has over recent years has been sensational, its growth has not been a smooth one and on occasion it has changed direction and has gone into a decline. This was never clearer than during the Football World Cup in 2010. During the period immediately before, during and for some time afterwards that number of online poker players dropped so dramatically that some online poker operators got into cash flow problems. Presumably this was due to many poker players being keen football fans and also could have had something to do with a temporary change in gambling patters.
Basic Draw Poker – Lesson #8: General conclusions
Ok, the lessons have finally ended and you probably have understood that playing poker is not that easy :-). But what have you really learnt from this brief course?
- You can stay in the game in three cases only: If you believe that your combination is higher than the combinations of other players; if the pot odds are in your favor; if you have quite a big chance to improve your combination after drawing cards.
- In most cases, you should open the game and respond to the bets of other players only when your chance to win is more than 50%. If you don’t have a pair or, better yet, 4 cards to a straight or flush, you need to fold without hesitation, your chances to beat the other players or to form a higher combination is minimal. Remember that in most cases, wins the conservative player, who is ready to lose some of the initial bets and enter the game with a strong hand.
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