High cards and single pairs

[onnel]

I've now played 17K hands. This is not a great sample, especially considering they are my very first 17K hands ever and so not really representative of my current play, but I think still useful for the purposes of my question.

When I look at my winnings per final hand, I am a significant loser when I end up with a high card or single pair. My most common final hand is a single pair (not a great surprise, I think), comprising 44% of my final hands, and yet I have lost 39% of my total winnings with single pairs.

Numbers:

Total winnings (total from all hands 2 pair or better):
1749.55

Total lost from high cards (including non-paired blinds folded without a bet):
764.20

Total lost from one pairs:
698.53

So if I could know at the beginning of a hand that I would end up with only a high card or a single pair, I could fold the hand preflop and increase my earnings drastically. Obviously, this is impossible and yet I feel like I should be learning something from this.

I am very much a newbie, so it quite likely that I am still making very fundamental mistakes. I cannot complain too much though, I am still a net winner of 3.56 BB/100 in my first 17K hands. Hopefully I'll still be after my first 100K!

Thoughts or observations?

Onnel

[MrWookie]

Have you checked the box that says "Only show hands that weren't folded?"

If not, you're looking at all the times when your J high on the flop wasn't worth much and you folded.

[onnel]

Much nicer! now my high cards are a net 5$ winner and my one pair almost 500$.

So there's only a leak here if I'm folding too much (which I'm definitely not doing pre-flop, but may be the case later).

Thanks Wookie!

Onnel