I play poker for almost 2 years now, and recently I realized I was stuck. I started playing poker at PKR playing the 4NL and the 10NL, and grinded myself up to the level I am today, playing 50NL. Last summer I had a huge upswing, and found myself playing at the 100NL and the 200NL but after a series of bad beats and coolers I cashed out a nice amount and dropped down again to the 50NL.
I need to improve my game. There is a lot of variance in it, and limiting variance is an important factor in becoming a longterm winning player in my opinion.
So I bought HoldemManager and started to load all my previous handhistories, trying to fix some leaks. And I found them quick enough. HoldemManager has a few documents attached which you can use to see what your leaks are. Using a huge database of datamined hands they extracted the stats of a longterm winning player. In what range of hands make people the most money.
HoldemManager sweetspot (VPIP/PFR/3-bet%): ~ 22/17/5,5
My stats over the last 25K hands: 21,8/11,7/3,2
My problem, I played to passive. I rarely reraised, flatcalled to much 3-bets and called to many preflop raises by other players. Especially my habit to see a flop with suited connectors proved to be an expensive one.
My graph showed it perfectly, I was losing lots of money on non-showdown pots.
So, lets improve my game. Deposited some money on
Full Tilt and started playing! Trying to be more agressive and suck out those nitty setminers!
I will update this thread regularly with a graph and some key hands, feel free to comment!