VPIP/ Agression Factor

[poorfish]

I am new to short handed 6 max nl holdem and am curious what the VPip/ Agression Factor should be. I am currently running 30/15. Just what I seen today 6max seems to be a lot easier than full ring. All in hands can be OP++ as compared to 10 max (generally speaking). I am a winning player at full ring and have a winrate of 4BB/100 at 50nl and 7BB/100 at 25nl. Tried to move to 100nl full ring but that isn't working out right now.

[r8ed]

Welcome.

Well, by aggression factor I assume you mean preflop raise percentage. At least that's what most people on here mean when they post x/y. Your stats are not bad, but you may want to reduce x and increase y.

It all depends on table factors. I had two tables open tonight. One my VP$IP was close to 50 because the tightwads just kept folding to my raises and my cbets. On the other I was one of the tightest players at the table. I profited well on both.

Anyway, play some more and post some hands and everyone here is cool. I would play at 50NL or less until you can find your game. I experiment alot and I drop many buyins in the process. But I have a generous bankroll that allows me to do so without dropping down. I earned that bankroll by playing full ring for a while and moving up stakes when I had 25-30+ buyins for each level. It's tough to move up a level and switch to shorthanded. Many people who transition find it to be very simple at first and do well. Then they get a little ahead of themselves and blow through the profits and then some. Others shortly went back to the comforts of full ring after they couldn't take the variance.

Good luck.

[aislephive]

30/15 means that you are in too many pots and not the aggressor enough in the pots that you are in. A good friend of mine runs at 40/20 at 200nl 6 max on party but he has great postflop skills and is very aware of his table image as well as his opponents mind-states. This is key in order to be in so many pots that you be a great postflop decision maker. I'm at about 20/14 when I play, but my AF is around 2.9 (including PF numbers) which seperates me from most TAG players, I am just a lot more aggressive postflop than they are.

[Seasider]

It all depends on table factors. I had two tables open tonight. One my VP$IP was close to 50 because the tightwads just kept folding to my raises and my cbets. On the other I was one of the tightest players at the table. I profited well on both.

Ding! IMO this is what 6-max is all about adapting to a table to maximise your $$! Looking at my PT stats my highest VP$IP is 75.93 over a 55 hand session at a table my lowest is 11.36 over 44 hands (i musta just been set camping against maniacs ) AVERAGE is 35.63 over 26,579 hands all 6 max.

[poorfish]

After two days of playing Im am up $300 at 50 NL 6 short handed max. My VPIP after 2500 hands is 33% with preflop raise of 15%. If I filter out the blinds the numbers become 25% and 18% respectively. I have a bankroll of $2800 dollars so I think I am properly rolled. So far it seems alot easier than full ring to make money and nut camping. Raising so many hands people have a tendency to play back at you when your holding air. Then you catch a big hand and you get paid off because they still think your just holding air. Hopefully i can keep earing 14PTBB per 100 hands for 20,000 hands or so. I know my sample size is relatively small and I might be having a hot run of cards. I will give an update when I hit 10k hands. Thanks for everyones input.

[alias2211]

have found that my successful sessions tend to have a ratio of preflop raised to preflop called hands at least 2:1 (i.e. raising at least 66% of the time when you make it to the flop). accordingly, this makes having a really high VPIP percentage difficult to maintain until you develop some good 6max post flop skills. that will come with time. you're probably better off avoiding 35%+ VPIP until you're more comfortable post flop, if you can. of course tables dictate that a lot, so don't go to a tight ass table and not raise just because you're over 35%.

to give a concrete example, check out the 3/28/06 post on gabe's blog:

http://blog.flopturnriver.com/gabe.php

he's a baller and he's right around 25%. by decreasing his VPIP he can enter more pots as the aggressor more often, and that is a good thing.

[Lukie]

r8ed, agression factor is another stat used by pokertracker, and if you ever go to 2p2 and post, they usually give stats in the x/y/z format (vpip/pfr/af).

(raise % + bet %) / (call %) = agression factor

[r8ed]

I'm aware of that, but not many people mention it on here, especially when talking x/y. In PT, you can choose to inlcude/exclude preflop in the aggression factor too which will skew the results.

[Lukie]

Well, by aggression factor I assume you mean preflop raise percentage

[r8ed]

I am new to short handed 6 max nl holdem and am curious what the VPip/ Agression Factor should be. I am currently running 30/15.

You think his aggression factor is 15?

everyone here is cool.

Almost everyone here is cool...except the people that straggle in from full ring forums and try to pick arguments over nothing.

[poorfish]

Lukie I did mean preflop raise percentage. Was a little tired when I posted this topic. My agressission factor is around 2.5 for full ring. I have no I idea what it is for short handed.

[Lukie]

Almost everyone here is cool...except the people that straggle in from full ring forums and try to pick arguments over nothing.

who did that?

Lukie I did mean preflop raise percentage. Was a little tired when I posted this topic. My agressission factor is around 2.5 for full ring. I have no I idea what it is for short handed.

it's all good, just trying to help.