How to plug this leak?

[andy609]

What do you make of this, suggestions? This is after 9,000 hands.

[vqc]

if RFI% = raise when first in pot, u are not opne raising enough with those hands.

[cobere]

I'm pretty sure RFI means that out of the total times he was dealt those hands, he open-raised that percentage of the time. The other times, someone else was in first.

You probably want to quit cold calling raises with AJs/o and AQo unless you have a good reason. Those hands can be tricky when you hit the flop.

Another thing to do is look at the window below that one that lists all the individual hands. Sort in decending order by Net and look at your big money-losers. How did you play them? What was your downfall ... staying in too long when dominated and outkicked? hitting TPTK and getting burnt by straights and flushes?

I'm looking at these sort of things in my own play now. My AK stats are none too pretty either.

[Wooderson]

Another thing to do is look at the window below that one that lists all the individual hands. Sort in decending order by Net and look at your big money-losers. How did you play them? What was your downfall ... staying in too long when dominated and outkicked? hitting TPTK and getting burnt by straights and flushes?

I'm looking at these sort of things in my own play now. My AK stats are none too pretty either.

By far the best idea.

[El Ninho]

Calling raises with offsuit big cards (except AK where you are probably raising anyway), especially when out of position are a sure recipe for disaster. It's an easy rule to remember. Arguments could be made for cold-calling with the better suited hands, but just avoid calling with the offsuit broadways imo.

[aokrongly]

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[djzcko]

RFI% is the % of times you raised when you were the 1st to enter the pot. Therefore, if somebody limped before you, you were not the 1st to enter the pot. It doesn't mean much to me...my AK RFI% is 37% but who cares?

I currently play at $50nl, 27k hands and AKos is also my 4th most profitable hand behind AA, KK and QQ. I play it as follows: Raise or Re-raise pf in any position. However, I will just call a re-raise if villain is a rock (3% pf raise or less) and hope to spike a K or A on the flop. I will take villain all-in pf if I am sure he doesn't have AA or KK. I always bet the flop hard (like I have AA) unless I am OOP and there are more than 2 callers in which case I will check if I miss the flop. I also raise 6xBB pf which seems to announce "I got AA" to the world. If I miss the flop and my c-bet gets called I will re-eval the turn and will likely check/fold if I am OOP but will continue betting if checked to me in position. The bottom line is that the way I play AK fits perfectly into my image...I am 15/7 TAG. Lastly, I would not recommend that everyojne play it this way....it works for me because of my table image. Since I am a fairly profitable player and have been playing the same site for all 27k of my hands, I tend to beleive that there are a ton of villains out there who probably have a "stay away" note on me. I tend to showdown only premium hands (57% W%SD) so I have no reason to beleive that many of the regulars out there want to mess much with me. In short, when I play AK like AA, villain beleives it and will fold the majority of times to my c-bet on the flop if it even gets that far. If you are loose and splash around in a lot of pots, you will get played back at much more than I do and therefore playing AK this way won't work well. The bottom line is that you need to play it in a way which suits your overall style to maximize profits. No one way is the best.

[djzcko]

Also wanted to say that I agree with AOK on AQ. I will usually call pf raises with AQs, sometimes will call with AQos and try to spike 2 pr min but will generally dump it esp MP and below. On a Q high flop, you need to be aware of KK and AA. On a A high flop, you need to be aware of AK or AA. It happens enough to be paranoid of it...seen villain get stacked with AQ quite a bit. If you choose to play AQ to raises pf, don't play for stacks with TP. Usually always dump AJ to a pf raise unless it is a maniac pf raiser....

[El Ninho]

It also depends on a position. Advicing someone to fold AQ on the button when cutoff raised first in would be moronic... Also you have to consider who the raiser are. But as a very general rule folding big offsuit cards are probably best to stay out of trouble.

[djzcko]

It also depends on a position. Advicing someone to fold AQ on the button when cutoff raised first in would be moronic... Also you have to consider who the raiser are. But as a very general rule folding big offsuit cards are probably best to stay out of trouble.

Agreed. Just was speaking about general rules. Position, who is raising, my table image and my stack all come into play when I consider folding, calling or even re-raising. In general, you need to play AQ carefully to be profitable with this hand.

[andy609]

I'm pretty sure RFI means that out of the total times he was dealt those hands, he open-raised that percentage of the time. The other times, someone else was in first.

You probably want to quit cold calling raises with AJs/o and AQo unless you have a good reason. Those hands can be tricky when you hit the flop.

Another thing to do is look at the window below that one that lists all the individual hands. Sort in decending order by Net and look at your big money-losers. How did you play them? What was your downfall ... staying in too long when dominated and outkicked? hitting TPTK and getting burnt by straights and flushes?

I'm looking at these sort of things in my own play now. My AK stats are none too pretty either.

Finally got a chance to look at these (I was away for the weekend). I've actually taken 5 or 6 bad beats with AQo; people have rivered sets or flushes when I had a pair and another time I was against AK, flopped a queen, but he rivered a king. I was only outkicked by AK one time. On that hand, I raised out of position preflop on the AK guy, which was also the case on the hand where he spiked the king.

As for AK, the problem seems to be too much second barrelling. I'm gonna definately try to do this less w/ AK, paying attention to Renton's guidelines.

With AJ, I have had the misfortune of thrice opening for a raise preflop and getting smooth called by KK or JJ. On all three occaisions, I was unfortunate enough to hit a jack on the flop, so I was pretty much toast. Not much to do there other than fold it preflop from early position. (I could limp it, but I despise limping in from early position unless I have 22-88)

So anyway, the point of this rambling post is that looking at the actual hands it doesn't look that bad. I'm definately going to take yours and Renton's suggestions though, and thank you for them.