Texas Hold Em - How To Use Hold Em Manager

Once your game is a good example, it is suggested to install extra software to follow your wins/loses. Hold 'Em Manager will track how much won by you and lose, at what stakes, etc. You can use it to get aspects of your game which can be weak. It also features a Heads Up Display put right to the Poker domino table. This will show how aggressive players are, and also how frequently they play hands, the amount they've raised, etc. It will help your game immensely.
There are instructions for installing it online.
OK so that you've downloaded and installed Hold Em Manager. Once you starting playing at a table, the HUD should appear. I was pretty overwhelmed by it the 1st time. There are tons of numbers, and a lot of which don't be the better choice. I'll break them down for the default settings
First Line:
VPIP - This is how often a player volunteers to put take advantage the pot and it is a fantastic measure of looseness. For six max under 10 is very nitty, 20 means they pull off stuff occasionally which is fairly normal, 30 means something such as they will play any connector suited you aren't, and anything over 40 means sudden expenses of these hands are trash.
PFR - Percentage of time they raise pre-flop when they plan to play a hand. This number must be when compared to the VPIP to have useful information. If someone has a PFR of 20 but a VPIP of 60 a lot of the pots they enter they just don't raise, and a raise probably indicates something it's not total trash. If someone carries a PFR of 20 but a VPIP of 20 meaning they always raise and are alert to aggression and in all probability position. If (PFR/VPIP) is 1/4 they're very passive and more often than not limp. 1/2 results in they limp making use of their worst hands and raise using best hands. 3/4 is quite normal and means they raise a lot of the time, and can limp behind sometimes hoping that low pocket pairs or connectors hit hard before they start jamming money in. 4/4 means they always raise and you also can't get useful information from other holdings according to their raises preflop.
Attempted to Steal -- Percentage of times this player raised once the action folded to him when he was in the cutoff or around the button. This must be extremely high -- no less than 70%. If you see something like 30% the gamer only raises with good hands which is blind to how profitable stealing is, maybe he's decided that it's the micros and everyone will call anyway so why bother but that is a stupid thing to obtain stuck in your thoughts -- should they call anyway a cbet around the flop will still get it so frequently that you will should be stealing frequently. If you're within the blinds this stat can help tell you whether you ought to fold/call/reraise vs. button action.
3 Bets Preflop % -- if someone else raises in advance of this player, what percentage of some time does he reraise? 4% means he's only doing the work with premium hands for value. 8% means he sometimes will reraise for isolation or as they would like to punish a loose raiser which is fairly normal with thinking players. 12% takes the identical ideas such as 8% and pushes them further. 20% is quite high, plus a player who reraises that much is determined by people to play poorly postflop against his show of strength to create a profit.
Second Line:
AF - Aggression factor is a ratio of aggressive POSTFLOP moves to passive ones. So (bet% + raise%) / (check% + call%). 1 is very very passive, they don't bet without having a set or better most of the time, and in many cases then they're probably scared that you will run away if they fart so that they may not bet anyway. 2 remains fairly passive, but at least they'll force away draws and bet at loose players who'll call anyway. 3 is very aggressive, they'll be making a lot of Cbets broke, checkraising dry flops to scare away foes Cbets, etc. 4 is very aggressive but nonetheless around the side of reason. Anything over four either means they've gotten lucky on each and every flop while you've been watching them or they have to win every pot and can bet to take action.
Cbet Flop -- Percentage of time they'll bet the flop whenever they were the aggressor preflop. 30% is very low and means they just really cbet once they hit some or offer an overpair that's still good. 60% implies that about 50 % of enough time they whiffed, but honestly in college too, so you want to Cbet at the very least 60% of some time. 80% is very high and usually means that they Cbet religiously on all but the grossest of flops -- if your player having a Cbet stat that way doesn't Cbet on the flop he obviously should (contains an A or K or AA-TT) watch out -- but there's nothing wrong with having a Cbet percentage like this yourself.
Folds to Flop Cbet -- Does he know that individuals will cbet without a penny? If this is at 100% he doesn't, and he'll only play against aggression when he's flopped the nuts and you ought to be pounding around the bet button on every flop in which you raised pre. Around 60% is pretty normal here. 30% or less means they read somewhere that Cbets are bluffs , nor respect them ought to be principle or perhaps a a few stupidity, in any other case just that he likes to play chicken on the turn.
Total Hands - This is very important, as it helps make the remaining stats relevant. You need this stat so that you don't go bonkers you may notice someone features a VPIP of 100% -- if he's only played four hands to date relax and then play normally. Most stats don't begin to matter until at 50-100 hands.
Be specific when you consult stats! Let's say someone raises, you call, the flop come A59, you hold A8, and that he bets at you again. You see that they has a VPIP of 60% and re-raise him, anf the husband shoves over you so you call as he's bluffing his VPIP is like a zillion, you could have just designed a bad decision. What was his PFR? If he has 60% VPIP but 4% PFR this means he only raises using the cream of the crop and it is probably has you dominated with AK-AJ. On the other side of the coin, if someone else has 15 for VPIP and raises early, the flop comes low and action is reasonable before river when he starts freaking out you don't come with an autofold.
What's his AF? If it's high he might function as type of guy who do not like to discontinue a pot once he's within it -- he doesn't care if his AQ whiffed the flop, he features a VPIP of 12 and thinks every pot belongs to him. Does his Showdown Percentage confirm our suspicions that they cannot find the fold button? If the AF is low and the man's abnormally raising then, he probably features a premium hand, in case it's high as well as the SD% is high so you have an overpair with something like 99 you may want to look him up. Anyway, why could you have a look at preflop stats once you're considering postflop action? Of course, your preflop info is hardly irrelevant, but look at the most relevant stat FIRST, then utilize other stats to assist define his range.