HEM Hand Range Tool

#1 16th September 2009, 4:40 AM

I just purchased HEM and finally got the HH's imported and the HUD up and running. I'm reading and posting through the HEM forum to learn about important stats and such. However, I posted the below question there and have not received a response on that forum yet. I was hoping that maybe someone from here that uses HEM would know an answer or offer a suggestion about the below question. Thanks!

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'm very new to HEM, please forgive my very noob question.
I have a ? on the Hand Range Tool. I understand that you can manually make adjustments. What I am wonder is if there are particular stats recommended to place in the fields next to the slider bars. I looked at this: http://www.holdemmanager.net/faq/afm...aspx?faqid=179

The only thing I saw in the article to answer my question is this:
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You can also manually select the hands, by clicking on them. If you enter a % in the % of pre-flop and EV vs. top pair fields respectively, it will go to that position.
I'm assuming the % of pre-flop is the villains vpip %? I do not understand what EV vs. top pair means. I do not see a stat when I click on the villains overall stats that show something like this.

I'm sure I'm misunderstanding something here, would appreciate some advice on what the above means and what stats percentages are recommended to put into the % area to the right of the slider bars, both top and bottom.

Thank You!

#2 16th September 2009, 6:47 AM

I think I figured out how to use it.

Let's say your opponent's stats show up in your HUD as 36/2 and he just limped.

What I would do is enter 36 in the 1st box to show what he calls with (those light red marks). Then the 2nd box excludes some hands from his range depending on the action. I'd put 2 in the 2nd box since he didn't raise (exclude what he would raise with). When I did that in the 2nd box, it cleared the AA, KK, QQ, and JJ spaces.

Now to me, this shows his pre-flop limping range.

Now maybe someone might know how to use this info once we have it and how to proceed post-flop. But here's a start, I guess.

#3 16th September 2009, 6:50 AM

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Originally Posted by MrSticker

I think I figured out how to use it.

Let's say your opponent's stats show up in your HUD as 36/2 and he just limped.

What I would do is enter 36 in the 1st box to show what he calls with (those light red marks). Then the 2nd box excludes some hands from his range depending on the action. I'd put 2 in the 2nd box since he didn't raise (exclude what he would raise with). When I did that in the 2nd box, it cleared the AA, KK, QQ, and JJ spaces.

Now to me, this shows his pre-flop limping range.

Now maybe someone might know how to use this info once we have it and how to proceed post-flop. But here's a start, I guess.

Thank you for looking at this. I am very new to using stats so I don't know what 36/2 means. Is 36 the vpip and 2 the pfr (if that's the right abrv. for preflop aggression)?

#4 16th September 2009, 5:23 PM

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Originally Posted by StormRaven

Thank you for looking at this. I am very new to using stats so I don't know what 36/2 means. Is 36 the vpip and 2 the pfr (if that's the right abrv. for preflop raise%)?

Yes.

#5 18th September 2009, 10:45 AM

In case anyone who uses this was interested in the response I finally got at the HEM forum from support:

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It is up to your skill and judgement what numbers you enter in the slider boxes. Going off VPIP for pre-flop ranges is a bit crude - you'd almost certainly want to adjust for position.

EV vs top pair, refers to the EV the draw hand you sleected has against top piar. E.g if you had a flush draw it would be around 32%, if you had a straight and flush draw it would be above 50%.

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