Wow... why have I never thought of doing this? I love the idea.


In relation to the blinds, I dont see howthis would "skew the numbers" over any decent sample size. Even over just 10k hands you would expect to have had AA, 72os or whatever just as many times on the button or utg as you have had on the BB for example.

Infact, leaving the blinds IN the stats would do much more damage than taking them out. You could be playing a hand theoretically profitably from the BB but still showing a loss, ie, you are not playing profitably enough to turn the hand +EV from the blnids but you could be making it LESS -EV by playing it well.


If you really wanted to get picky (which is probably what I will do when I try this exercise) you could filter out the blinds and get your starting hands for normal play, then filter everything but the BB and get your least -EV range for the BB and then do the same for the SB.

You could take that one step further over a much larger sample size and filter each table position individually and get your starting hand ranges for each position.


If you want to play the most profitable poker you are capable of, you should also be looking at which hands are not profitable but you think SHOULD be profitable. Once you get comfortable playing your "profitable range" you should then focus on adding some extra hands and learning how to make these hands turn a profit, keep doing this until you think you have reached your profitable capacity.

Disclaimer: I still suck