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Message: [QUOTE="F Paulsson, post: 1214680, member: 6979"] Sorry if I came across as having taken it the wrong way; I didn't. I should probably have added a smilely in there somewhere. :) My point, as Zach has already noted so I'm directing this to the general population of CC, is of course only that one is treading on very, very thin ice if one looks at the "typical" reg stats (which, at least at Party, seems to be roughly 23/19) and try to emulate their play. There's a very big risk that they have huge holes in their game and attempting to open up to that point is just going to add the same holes to your own. The way to open up your game is to first and foremost know which hands are "universally" profitable, by which I mean that they can be played by default and show a profit. Some hands that are universally profitable should probably still be folded under certain conditions (aggressive 3-bettors to your left, for instance) but we should try to build a solid game that works even when we're not paying maximum attention. If I'm always opening 98s in the cutoff, I'm showing a profit. This is not true for 98o. But then there are times when opening 98o in the cutoff is good. When the button is tight and passive and there's a big fish in one of the blinds, for instance. Finding those spots and abusing them is how you open up your game, not by adding K6s to your default cutoff opening range. Being very observant about these things, and finding good spots to 3-bet light and isolate can and will drive your VPIP/PFR up. I guarantee that that's not how the typical reg arrives there, though. They do stuff like flat my UTG open with A9o on the button. Grats me. For shits and giggles, I filtered and looked up what my PFR would be if I only played my universal ranges with six players at the table, and checked my respective win-rates for those ranges this year: UTG: 66+,QJs+,AJs+,AQo+ gives 1126/15519 = 7.2% ([COLOR="DarkGreen"][B]236.48bb/100[/B][/COLOR]). MP: 22+, JTs+, KQo+, AJo+, ATs+ gives 1892/15454 = 12.2% ([COLOR="DarkGreen"][B]129.73bb/100[/B][/COLOR]) CO: 22+,87s+,QTs+,A8s+,ATo+,KJo+ gives 2469/15569 = 15.9% ([B][COLOR="DarkGreen"]130.27bb/100[/COLOR][/B]) BU: 22+, all suited cards, A2o+, K6o+, Q7o+, J8o+, T8o+, 97o+,86o+,76o+ gives 9481/15783 = 60% ([B][COLOR="DarkGreen"]82.45bb/100[/COLOR][/B]) SB: 22+,A2o+,A2s+,87s+,97s+,K9o+,QTo+,JTo+ gives 5126/15756 = 32% ([COLOR="DarkGreen"][B]15.52bb/100[/B][/COLOR]) Now, as you saw from the stats I posted in the first post, I'm actually not this tight. And I don't open the button quite as often as my universal ranges (which has to do with me being pretty perceptive about having an avid 3-bettor in the blinds, which is very common at Party). But I thought the numbers might be interesting nonetheless, to give an idea for what my default ranges look like. Also, note that this does not correspond to my win-rates overall in those positions (I wish!) but only my win-rates for those ranges when I was the preflop raiser. Also, I filtered only for games with six players at the table, which explains the somewhat low volume (~100k hands) for this year, since I've played quite a large volume of 4- and 5-handed games. [/QUOTE]

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