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addendum to How's My Stealing?

Pokey's OP [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] did a good job of explaining pure steals. I classify a pure steal as the table folds around to you in late position and you raise first into the pot hoping to take the blinds, or mutilate them postflop with position.

dbitel [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] took it a step further in his poohbah post and discussed not only raising to take the blinds, but raising loose EP limpers to take their limp as well. These situations can be quite profitable.
PT can be used to check for this as well [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
Hopefully, you already used Pokey's check to see that your doing a fantastic job on stealing blinds. This number is a benchmark necessary for the next part.
To check on how well you are executing dbitel's advice, goto filters under general info.
-Make sure everything is in the default position.
-switch 'position off the button' to less than or equal to 1.
-put 'preflop raise' to any raise.
-click ok

You should now see a number that reflects both your traditional steals (Pokey method) and limpers plus blinds steal (dbitel extension). Since you (hopefully) already marked how well you did under traditional steals, you can add in how your additional steals are going. This number should be very postive. For me, it's over <font color="green">+1BB/hand</font>.

But, some of you are thinking, of course it's positive. I'm raising my good hands typically and the limpers don't have anything. Well, I suggest you look at how well you do with your not-so-good hands. Under filters, you can select specific hands. Perhaps, you feel like not counting the top10% of hands. Well, go through and check the other 90%. This will give you an idea if you are using position and stealing to turn regular old hands into money-making machines.