[NUCKING_FUTS_4]

Vpip:

Voluntarily put T$ in the pot.

When you through choice place money/chips in the pot. eg you've called the blind, raised the blind or called a raise from the blind. The forced blinds are not counted in this figure.

It is a percentage of the total hands dealt to you in which you've acted as above.

General advice for beginners is that if you've a VPIP of 25 % or greater at a full table of say 9 players you have leaks, or are creating situations where you will come a cropper on more occasions than you will not.

The figure is vary variable with the table type, number of players, your style etc. The following are very general guidlines for the full table 9 players:

0-15% would indicate a rockie (small winner)
15-25% a TAG (Winner)
25-35% a LAG (Looser)
35+ LOOSER.(Deluded)

Obviously the more hands you have on yourself or another player the more accurate the information will be.

The figures also depends on the cards you are dealt and it is one of the reasons I use external software to track mine and others play. The sites generally provide stats for each game you play, but realistically this isn't as indicative of a players style as you might think.

When the number of players drops, the VPIP will increase, to a point at HU where it could range from 50-100% depending on the factors at hand.

It is a pointer/guide and to become effective information in my book has to be coupled with other pieces of information at hand.

How they play their blinds.
How many hands do they win when they stay for the flop
How many hands they take to the showdown.
How many hands win at the showdown,
Are they a stealer,
Do they raise preflop or LwPC (Limp with preflop call of a raise)
And their aggression factor on each street.

Someone once said that poker is a game of 'incomplete information'. Try and include as much as you can in your decisions and you will fair better.

HTH.


NF4.