[jesusson]

I have played stretches of 30,000 hands with 21 vpip and have had similar results to 30 vpip. I find that the blinds eat me away playing 21% especially when my aces and kings consistently lose to unsuited random cards that some fish calls 2 cold with... I wonder how they can call with my rock like table image if I am only playing 21% of my hands but they do.

By playing more hands I generate more rake which turns into more rakeback and more bonuses and this is how I have been surviving the game. I have even ventured a few thousand hands playing 50% to try and maximize on this theory while picking up pots I normally wouldn't. This way of playing did not fair well for me because I didn't like the huge swings.

I have been trying to find a balance and playing less hands and smarter poker. The only change I am noticing is less rakeback which equals less profits because I am running at -1 bb/100 over 50,000 hands now...