The player starting cards displays for each starting card combination, how much you have won/lost when playing those hands, and other statistics for that starting card combination. This is useful for plugging leaks in your game, once you have collected enough hands in your database. For example, you can see that playing KJo is a money loser in 8-10 handed games from early position.
II. Usage
To use this, just type a player name into the "Player Name" box, and click
"Get Data". For each starting card combination, the average dollar amount
won/lost each time you were dealt and did not fold preflop with that
starting card combination,
along with the average
big bets won/lost each time you were dealt that starting card combination
(for no-limit and pot-limit
games, a big bet is defined as double the big blind), number of
times you were dealt those cards, and
your pre-flop fold percentage with those cards, are displayed. This information
can be filtered using the "Set Filter" button.
You can sort the starting cards by "Rank", "Average Big Bets won/lost per hand",
or "Hands seen". "Rank" sorts starting with AA to A2, then KK to K2, on down to 32, 22.
"Average Big Bets won/lost per hand" sorts by the average big bets
(for no-limit and pot-limit
games, a big bet is defined as double the big blind) that starting
card combination won or lost per hand. "Hands seen" sorts by how many times
the starting card combination was dealt.
To the right of the player name box, the Unique Hands means how many unique
starting card combinations there are in the list. The most this can be is 169.
Total won/lost gives how much the player won or lost in the hands player did not
fold preflop, which are used to
calculate the starting cards list. The "Hands Processed" is how many hands
were used to calculate the starting card statistics, and may change depending on
the filter settings.
If you double click on any particular starting card combination, you can view
the hands where this player was dealt and played that combination. It will also display
the percent of times those starting cards won, which is calculated by taking the total
times those starting cards won divided by the total times those starting cards
were dealt (or showed down). Coming
out even means your outcome from playing that hand was zero. Rarely,
you can come out even while still winning the hand, when you split the pot, for example.
Losing a hand means you came out negative. When you split the pot,
but come out negative
due to the rake, this is defined as, and counts as, "losing" the hand (happens very rarely).
The average win and average loss is how much
the player wins on average with those starting cards when he/she wins,
and how much the player loses on average with those starting cards when he/she loses.
The other statistics are self explanatory.
III. Showdown/Dealt/All hands and Player saw flop
A note about the "Showdown hands only/Dealt hands only/All hands"
radio boxes, and the "Player saw flop with hand" check box:
This option lets you use only hands where the
player showed down cards in a showdown in calculating starting card statistics,
or only hands where
the user was dealt cards in the hand history in calculating starting card statistics.
When viewing data about other players, you usually want this option set to
Showdown hands only, since you only know other player's hole cards when they showdown
their hands. When viewing data about yourself, you usually want to set this option to
Dealt hands only, since you want to see how well you do with starting cards even when
you have folded them before the showdown.
The "Player saw flop with hand" check box, when checked, will limit hands shown
to only hands where the player did not fold preflop, and a flop was dealt. This is useful
to see how well you do with a certain starting card when you play it and a flop was
dealt.
IV. Tips
Set the filter to 8-10 handed games only, and the player position to only hands
where you are in early, late, or middle position, to see where your leaks are.
Do this when you have a lot of hands in the database. If you find you are losing
a lot with a particular starting card combination
in a certain position, view the hands where you
played that card combination in that particular position,
to see if you are making any mistakes.
When you display an opponent's cards, the starting
card combinations shown will be only those hands he/she showed down, and will tend
to be winning hands. Only when you view starting card performance for yourself
will the data be non-biased in this way. Only starting card statistics for yourself
are accurate. You can use these statistics so see how much value a starting card
has when you play it. For example, you can see that AA has a value of 4BB, but
67s has a value of 0.3BB whenever you play it.
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