Difference between revisions of "Texas Hold Em - How To Use Hold Em Manager"

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Once your game is good enough, experts recommend to setup extra software to monitor your wins/loses. Hold 'Em Manager will track how much shipped to you and lose, at what stakes, etc. You can use it to find areas of your game that are weak. It also includes a Heads Up Display put right onto the poker table. This will show how aggressive players are, in addition to how frequently they play hands, how much they've raised, etc. It will help your game immensely.
There are instructions for installing it on the website.
OK which means you've downloaded and installed Hold Em Manager. Once you starting playing at a table, the HUD should appear. I was pretty overwhelmed by it initially. There are tons of numbers, and many of these don't make sense. I'll break them down in charge of the default settings
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VPIP - This is how normally a player volunteers that will put take advantage the pot and is a fantastic measure of looseness. For six max less than 10 is extremely nitty, 20 means they make do with stuff occasionally which is fairly normal, 30 means something similar to they are going to play any connector suited or not, and anything over 40 means more than half of the hands are trash.
PFR - Percentage of time they raise pre-flop once they choose to play a hand. This number needs to be when compared to the VPIP to get useful information. If someone has a PFR of 20 but a VPIP of 60 a lot of the pots they enter they do not raise, as well as a raise probably indicates something that's not total trash. If someone carries a PFR of 20 but a VPIP of 20 meaning they always raise and therefore are conscious of aggression and in all likelihood position. If (PFR/VPIP) is 1/4 they're very passive and more often than not limp. 1/2 usually means they limp with their worst hands and raise with their best hands. 3/4 is actually comparatively normal and means they raise a lot of the time, but will limp behind sometimes hoping that low pocket pairs or connectors hit hard before they start jamming take advantage. 4/4 means they always raise and you also can't get useful information off their holdings determined by their raises preflop.
Attempted to Steal -- Percentage of times this player raised in the event the action folded to him when he was in the cutoff or around the button. This needs to be quite high -- at the very least 70%. If you see similar to 30% the ball player only raises with good hands and is also ignorant of how profitable stealing is, maybe he's decided that it is the micros and everyone will call anyway so why bother but that is a stupid thing to acquire stuck mentally -- should they call anyway a cbet around the flop will still go on it so frequently that you really need to be stealing frequently. If you're within the blinds this stat can help let you know whether you ought to fold/call/reraise vs. button action.
3 Bets Preflop % -- if a person raises in front of this player, what percentage of enough time does he reraise? 4% means he's only doing it with premium hands for value. 8% means he sometimes will reraise for isolation or while he desires to punish a loose raiser which is fairly normal with thinking players. 12% takes exactly the same ideas as with 8% and pushes them further. 20% is very high, and a player who reraises much is according to website visitors to play poorly postflop against his show of strength to produce a profit.
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AF - Aggression factor is a ratio of aggressive POSTFLOP moves to passive ones. So (bet% + raise%) / (check% + call%). 1 is quite very passive, they won't bet with out a set or better the majority of the time, and even then they're probably scared you will back off whenever they fart so they may not bet anyway. 2 is still fairly passive, but no less than they'll drive back draws and bet at loose players who'll call anyway. 3 is fairly aggressive, they will be making plenty of Cbets with nothing, checkraising dry flops to scare away foes Cbets, etc. 4 is incredibly aggressive but still about the edge of reason. Anything over four either means they've gotten lucky on every single flop while you've been watching them or they need to win every pot and will bet to take action.
Cbet Flop -- Percentage of time they'll bet the flop should they were the aggressor preflop. 30% is incredibly low and means they merely really cbet after they hit moobs or come with an overpair that's still good. 60% signifies that about 50 % of some time they whiffed, capsa but honestly took action now too, so you want to Cbet at the very least 60% of time. 80% is very high and usually means they Cbet religiously on all but the grossest of flops -- if your player having a Cbet stat prefer that doesn't Cbet on the flop he obviously should (contains an A or K or AA-TT) keep an eye out -- however, there is nothing wrong by having a Cbet percentage this way yourself.
Folds to Flop Cbet -- Does he realize that individuals will cbet broke? If this is at 100% he doesn't, and he'll only play against aggression when he's flopped the nuts and you also must be pounding around the bet button on every flop in places you raised pre. Around 60% is fairly normal here. 30% or less means they read somewhere that Cbets are bluffs and do not respect them as a matter of principle or even a a few stupidity, or else exactly that he likes to play chicken for the turn.
Total Hands - This is quite important, as it helps to make the remaining stats relevant. You need this stat and that means you don't go bonkers if you see someone features a VPIP of 100% -- if he's only played four hands to date start a family and attempt to play normally. Most stats don't will matter until at 50-100 hands.
Be specific once you consult stats! Let's say someone raises, you call, the flop come A59, you possess A8, and the man bets at you again. You see which he has a VPIP of 60% and re-raise him, and that he shoves over you and you also call while he's bluffing his VPIP is like a zillion, you may have just created a bad decision. What was his PFR? If he's 60% VPIP but 4% PFR that means he only raises with the cream from the crop and it is probably has you dominated with AK-AJ. On the other side from the coin, when someone has 15 for VPIP and raises early, the flop comes low and action is reasonable until the river when he starts freaking out you don't offer an autofold.
What's his AF? If it's high he could function as the sort of guy who hate to stop a pot once he's in it -- he doesn't care if his AQ whiffed the flop, he includes a VPIP of 12 and thinks every pot is associated with him. Does his Showdown Percentage confirm our suspicions which he cannot find the fold button? If the AF is low and that he's abnormally raising then, he probably includes a premium hand, but if it's high and also the SD% is high so you offer an overpair with something similar to 99 you should look him up. Anyway, why can you examine preflop stats when you're thinking about postflop action? Of course, your preflop info is hardly irrelevant, but examine the most recent stat FIRST, then consider other stats to assist define his range.