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What Is The Optimal VPIP For Fixed Limit Texas Holdem?

Sun, 02/28/2010 - 20:30 — maggie

Abstract

An analysis is performed to assess which VPIP values are associated with the most profitable players at Fixed Limit Texas Holdem tables. Results are found to be similar to No Limit tables of the same limit ($1/$2). There is no VPIP value for which players have a consistently higher BB100. As players' VPIP increase, the BB100 values become more widely dispersed, but their average BB100 does not change significantly.

Introduction

Following on from What Is The Optimal VPIP for No Limit Texas Holdem?, I had a look at the optimal VPIP for Fixed Limit Holdem tables.

Method

The same Java script from the previous analysis was used, but with different paramaters.

Results

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VPIP Distribution

The data was filtered for hands played at full 10 player $1/$2 Fixed Limit Holdem tables from Pokerstars.

Only hands from players with over 1,000 hands was included. This adds survivorship bias, but the purpose of this analysis is to help people find a long term characteristic to emulate, so it does not matter that shorter term players are excluded.

The charts look similar to those from What Is The Optimal VPIP for No Limit Texas Holdem?. As the VPIP increases, the distribution of BB100's per player gets wider.

There are a few higher VPIP values that also have higher mean BB100's, but these are likely to be sampling errors, as the datapoints to either side tend to have lower BB100's. There is no continuous range of VPIP's, for which the BB100's are consistently higher than at any other part of the distribution.

Conclusion

At the full 10 player $1/$2 Fixed Limit Holdem tables from Pokerstars, a player's VPIP does not have a significant affect on whether or not they have a positive win rate. On average, most players have a small negative BB100. This is because the rake that Poker rooms charge make online Poker a negative sum game.

As VPIP increases, a players are more likely to have a high or low win rate, but the average BB100 for looser players is not significantly different to that of a tighter players.

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