Interesting Week

Well, some odd goings on this week. First of all, I ended up on 2p2 for the first time in ages. Started looking over some posts of people's stats, and realized that if I'm going to move up, I probably have to re-learn a solid TAG game, where I actually have good vpip v. PFR percentages, a decent aggression factor, all that jazz. So, I gave that a shot at some .02/.05 6max, with a new program that I'm thinking I may get instead of Poker Tracker, Hold'em Manager. The thing's pretty sweet, and it's only 1/2 the price of PT.

So I started with one table, running a HUD with standard info, and playing some actual poker for a change instead of set mining. I got to TAG it up, and did pretty well.

I ran:

VPIP: 24.2
PFR: 22.8
AF : 5.43
WTSD: 25.5
W$SD: 47.5

BB/100: 42.35

Not too shabby, not at all

So then I got to reading a bit from Pokey talking about how these people play very Loose/Passive preflop, then TAG postflop, playing serious poker and pretty much destroying. Since I feel like postflop is my stronger point anyway, this seemed like a great fit. I gave it a go, and the first day I ended up winning 43.5bb/100, plus I was 12 tabling, so the $/hour was much higher.

I tried it again for my first 2 hour session today, and it still seems to be going well. Here's the stats.












And by position:
















So I'm not entirely sure about HEM. I love the HUD, but I very VERY much dislike the big blinds per 100 instead of big bets/100 to which I'm accustomed. Maybe there's an option to change that somewhere. Also, it didn't actually keep my 2 databases seperate, so I had to purge yesterday's results because on a seperate database I was working with my buddy on his multi-tabling game, and his numbers severely affected my stats. Soooo, I don't know, we'll see. Oh yeah, that's the thing, can't use poker EV with HEM, but can't with PT3 either. So that kind of sucks, I like that program.

Another option is I guess just buying pokerace HUD, but for that money, why not get HEM? If all I even use it for is the hud, then the extras are just a bonus.

Here's my EV for the day, I'm guessing that I ran above expectation, cuz I won a lot of my all ins. Even though I was supposed to, I only took one bad beat the entire session, so it's likely that I was supposed to win less than I did.
















So that beat more than made up for the wins, I'm glad to see that. If I keep running my SB's higher, then that's profit for me. Can't be anything but happy with my winrate, that's for sure. And it actually seems to take less mental effort for me than playing very tight.

Here's another EV graph:














One last thing, for the first time ever, I'm making money on suited connectors. Not unsuited connectors, so maybe I'll start weaning those out, or at least only play them in position. I'll get back after my next few thousand hands.