The Future Poker Star on PPSN

I came across a social network site (like myspace, bebo, facebook etc) solely for poker players creatively called poker players social network and added a profile for our site.

It seems to be pretty good with some good discussions going on over there and I have spoken to some nice people. There isn't a huge amount of members but the site is quite new and they are getting new members all the time, so go check it, add yourself to my page and say hello. It's free and is really easy to set up.

Poker Players Social Network Page and don't forget about the MySpace.

Interesting Hand Analysis?

Did you know that 0.7% of the worlds population is drunk right now? Or that 32% of Americans work while eating lunch? Or that 1 kilo of sugar is approximately 5 million grains?

I'm sure this will be interesting stuff to somebody out there. But the statistics that I'm bringing to you today are the last 5000 hands that I played on pokerstars.

There are plenty of programs out there which will keep a record of all the hands you play and memorize how you play them. I decided to install one and let it capture my playing style. Please bear in mind that these figures are not for cash games, but for sit 'n' go's and tournaments.

• Hands: How many hands I played.
• VP$IP%: The percentage of hands I put money into the pot when I didn't have to.
• PFR%: The percentage of hands I raised pre-flop.
• WSD%: The percentage of hands I went to the showdown.
• WSDW%: The percentage of showdowns that I won.

So the first thing that stands out to me is that I consider myself a reasonably tight player, but the stats say that I put money into the pot in a quarter of the hands that were given to me. Is this pretty loose? I also like to raise before the flop when I have a good hand but discovered that I raised 7.5% of the times before the flop but went to the showdown over 12%, so I think I am limping in too much.

Possibly the most interesting statistic here is that from all the showdowns I went to I won only 46.52% of them. I need to tighten up and only go to the showdowns with the hands that I think I am going to win, instead of just "good hands".

But maybe the hand analysis matters as much as how many grains of sugar are in a kilo.