Random questions on analysing your own play

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Enigma Canada. Dec 19 2012 13:40. Posts 158

So I have been doing really well using HM to review my sessions, have been finding it very helpful (sometimes only to reduce tilt in certain situations).
I have been encountering a few recurring questions that I simply need other players to awnser.
How much value (bb/100) would you say is lost by being out of position?
I am not sure if I am playing poorly/too many hands OOP or if the reduced winnings as opposed to same hands in position is proportional to the loss of value that comes with playing OOP.

Defending vs players that steal too often. Related to the above, but I would think logically that you should defend (opponent steal%) - (% lost due to being OOP). So if they steal like 36% could you successfully defend 34%? only 30% etc. My default I believe is fine but there are quite a few regs that I see stealing way too often and want to punish this more.

How do you know if you are not playing certain hands well (eg. showing profit but unsure if played to maximum value)? Best I can figure to do is to mark those spots to look at, but even still it seems fine all the time. How do you find if you can play it better other than completely changing how you play that spot for the next n hands?

Apologize if these seem like fish questions, but I like to understand everything inside out. As I have found with my work (as I train many people in skilled operations) it is incredible how trying to teach someone else something you know very well can highlight where you have gaps in your own knowledge that were previously invisible to you. I have become enamoured with the idea of taking this approach with me to my poker game.

Cheers and good tidings,
E

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Mariuslol Norway. Dec 19 2012 14:51. Posts 4742

Think anyone having 35% steal on the button is fairly low, not much leverage room.

The best thing in my opinion is look at their other stats, if they have 60% or higher to fold to 3b, we can start 3b to take down 4bb, which is probably quite profitable.

Another thing to look at is fold to c-bet, then we kinda want them to call, and then fire c-bet.

3rd would be maybe look at how aggressive they are when they get in pots, if they open wide, a lot of people have really high flop aggression, then check down, have really low on turn and river. So then we can call lighter, and get a good idea of what they have on turn and river.

Ok, that's all I have at the moment lol.

Oh, I think there's some "blind master" guy on 2+2, who is selling some packages about playing in the blind, maybe a year old or something, Yourdoom or something, might be a little expensive, but think it's only about blind play, and he has lots of graph of him being all awesome in the blinds