Hand Stats (For all to see)

[N88DH8LP]

Please feel free to criticize, analyze, scrutinize, or simply just tear into me. I know the crowd on here does not need an invitation for this but I am offering one anyways. The only way we are gooing to get better is to take some harsh criticism.

Columns are: Hand, Actual # dealt, # Should have bean dealt, Variance on # of times dealt, and BB/100 hands.

These number are out of a sample of 125.4k hands. They are all between 2-4 and 5-10 limit 10 handed on stars.

AA 598 568 30 2.28

KK 559 568 -9 1.48

QQ 534 568 -34 0.99

JJ 567 568 -1 0.72

TT 572 568 4 0.29

99 552 568 -16 0.32

88 587 568 19 0.18

77 596 568 28 0.01

66 565 568 -3 0.02

55 546 568 -22 0.02

44 575 568 7 -0.03

33 564 568 -4 -0.04

22 578 568 10 -0.02


These hands tally up to a grand total of 6.22 BB/100 hands.

I was expecting much better results than this when I started playing internet poker. There seeems to be some glaring problems here. Let me know which of them you see.

For me small pairs just don't make any sense. I am very strict with my guidlines for playing them, so I can't see how I am losing with all of them. I don't play them on raises, I don't play them unless the pot is 6 handed or more, and I never peel for one card unless I flop a set or a straight draw with proper odds.

AA, KK, and QQ look like they need some serious help, but I'm not sure. I was hoping someone could give me some of their numbers to compare or possibly see where I am going wrong. 99 and TT don't make much sense to me considering I play them pretty much exactly the samw way.

[Erik W]

Tour bad stats with small pairs is probably due to that you play so few of them outside the blinds and in the blind positions you play and loose with them. To get a better value how they fair just ignore the play in the blinds.

For what it is worth I play 6max and I play them all the time and have very good results with them.

[Bob T.]

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For me small pairs just don't make any sense. I am very strict with my guidlines for playing them, so I can't see how I am losing with all of them. I don't play them on raises, I don't play them unless the pot is 6 handed or more, and I never peel for one card unless I flop a set or a straight draw with proper odds.



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I win with all of them, and I play them sometimes for raises. I play them any time I can get in for one bet regardless of the size of the field. And headsup, sometimes I don't just peel, I call down with small pairs. I also open raise with a lot of medium to small pairs depending on position.

I expect that you are leaving a lot of money on the table, because you give up too easily with these hands.

I also suspect that the problem probably carries over to 9s and Ts, where you give up if there is one overcard to your hand.

[mmctrab]

6.2BB/100 hands is an exceptionally good win rate over 125k hands. And, I agree with playing more pocket pairs.