Stats post - so I'm getting reamed in the ass in the BB

[abelardx]

Nice stats. They look very good. Like Mojo said, you're beating folding from the blinds, which is good. That's winning blinds play. Better than most people I'm sure.

One thing I'd be careful of is thinking of them as 'your blinds'. The blinds don't belong to the blinds any more than they do to any other player at the table. Like every pot, the blinds belong to the dealer to be held in escrow and awarded to the winner of the hand. The only thing being in the blinds does is give you a small discount to play the hand which is really not that great compensation for playing from the worst position at the table. We don't have to 'defend the blinds' to be winning players.

The only thing the blinds have going for them is that a tag's button opening range, when there are also tags in the blinds, is going to be very weak, so of course you can resteal occasionally. Other than that, blind play just sucks.

[BorisTheSpider]

Nice stats. They look very good. Like Mojo said, you're beating folding from the blinds, which is good. That's winning blinds play. Better than most people I'm sure.

Well thanks, but honestly I suspect you're wrong - I've just been doing some googling right now, and although I haven't been at it long, it seems that when people have brought this up on forums before, something like -15bb/100 from the BB and -30bb/100 from the BB ought to be possible, maybe better than that.

I mean, look at my overall stats over 117,000 hands - I'm down 6bb/100, if I could halve my loss-rates from the blinds, I'd be a breakeven player.

Now it's not necessarily that simple, it may be that I also need to be doing better from the CO to offset some of my inevitable losses in the blinds (although I am pleased to see I seem to be doing OK from the BTN, but that's kind of inevitable), but I still think I must be _badly_ misplaying my blinds - probably by being way too tight.

However I don't want to be too passive OOP by starting calling to much from the blinds, and nor do I want to succumb to my spewy tendencies by starting the 3bet like a monkey with a hand grenade. I guess I need to start making some gradual adjustments.

I'd particularly appreciate if other people can post their own loss rates in bb/100 from the SB and BB so I can get more of an idea how bad my stats are, and also if I can get some advice on calling vs 3bet ranges against typical (say 25% to 30%) button opens. It's not that I can't do the stovework myself, it's more that I'm interested in peoples advice about what kind of hands to 3bet and what to call.