Colour coding to help table selection

I have recently made a new system for colour coding villains according to their player types. Thought I would share so others can use it or suggest ways which it can be modified to work better. This is for full ring and the colours are similar to the ones I use in full tilt.

Aggressive fish/ Maniac 50+ hands
VPIP 35+
PFR 25+
Get to these tables asap

Passive fish 50+ hands
VPIP 35+
PFR 0 - 25
Great to have on your table, preferably in the 2 or 3 seats to your right.

Passive limper 50+ hands
VPIP 20 - 35
PFR 0 - 10
Great for isolating and picking up small pots post flop.

Nit 50+ hands
VPIP - 0 - 10
Prefer to have these guys sitting to your left. Steal all their blinds.

Passive reg 100+ hands
VPIP 10 - 20
PFR 8 - 20
3 bet 0 - 3
Know the basics of poker but don't much of a 3 bet game going yet.

Losing aggressive reg 100+ hands
VPIP 10 - 20
PFR 8 - 20
3 bet 4+
Negative winnings
Prefer not to have these sitting to your left as they will re-steal and would rather not be oop in the hands we play against them

Winning aggressive reg They all start as losing regs. If, after 500+ hands they are in the positive, they become winning regs.
VPIP 10 - 20
PFR 8 - 20
3 bet 4+
Positive winnings
Don't sit if one of these guys is in the two seats directly to your left. They will make your life hard. The exception is if there is a maniac or super fish at the table throwing around free money...

A couple of things I may add/change. I don't have anything for LAGs as you don't see too many at 25NL. Also maybe changing aggressive regs 3 bet to 5+ if there are too many...

Nice system, similar to how I have mine. Are you going through and making these changes post-session when going through HEM/PT3 or are you doing it as you're noticing it at the tables?

Doing it at the tables so the colours are on the full tilt software. This means when I look at the tables or join waiting list I can see what sort of table it is before joining. As soon as I sit at a table I can see where the regs/nit /fish are in relation to my seat

I just started doing this myself a few weeks ago. I think it has helped my table selection a ton. I don't have as many categories yet, basically green, yellow, and red for fish, okay players, and regs respectively. but I think even just that has helped my table selection immensely, by avoiding tables with a lot of red.

It's too complex for my taste but whatever works for you. I use 4 colors,

Yellow = SS Pos
Blue = Good Reg (avoid in most circumstances)
Purple = Reg but not particularly good
Green = Bad (I don't care how they're bad just that they are)

WVHillbilly said:

It's too complex for my taste but whatever works for you. I use 4 colors,

Yellow = SS Pos
Blue = Good Reg (avoid in most circumstances)
Purple = Reg but not particularly good
Green = Bad (I don't care how they're bad just that they are)

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I actually use 4 colours as well 3 of which you used

Yellow for marginally bad
Green for Decent/good reg
Blue for Big fish
Rainbow for the rest.

Yeh I used to just have 3 colours,

Green - bad
Blue - Nit
Orange - reg

I just felt that I needed a little bit more info before sitting down. Especially if moving up levels. I sat down and wrote this list out and it took me a few days to get used to what category everyone goes into but now I am used to it and feel it is much better than what I had before. BTW even if someone is a little out of a category I don't hesitate to label them as I see them, these are more guidelines than specific rules...

Good thread, I have Green for Vpip of 30+ for loose players, when i have enough hands ill add notes on if theyre aggressive or passive.
Orange for Vpip of 20-25 I dont know if this is still loose ive always taken it as not loose but not tight could anyone shed some light please?
And Red for under 20 Vpip. Oh and Yellow for those between 25-30...

Do these sound about right for a scale of looseness? i am going to start marking the good regulars down so i can focus on the best way to exploit them/stay out of their way!

acky100 said:

Good thread, I have Green for Vpip of 30+ for loose players, when i have enough hands ill add notes on if theyre aggressive or passive.
Orange for Vpip of 20-25 I dont know if this is still loose ive always taken it as not loose but not tight could anyone shed some light please?
And Red for under 20 Vpip. Oh and Yellow for those between 25-30...

Do these sound about right for a scale of looseness? i am going to start marking the good regulars down so i can focus on the best way to exploit them/stay out of their way!

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I think that may be ok for 6 max, I assume this is what you are playing?

Ah no, full ring? do i need to make some adjustments? thanks

Ok, yeh you should probably tighten those up quite a bit. As it is you will be getting the majority of players as red with just a few as the other colours. It also depends on the stakes you play, if you play 2NL the average player will be a lot looser than at 50NL...

I think if you are playing micros and wanted to just base it on vpip a fairly good system would be 0-12, 12-16, 16-22, 22+

This is just the problem i was having, i go to sit down and theres 7 reds already at a table, I will definitely re adjust these, so im guessing:

0-12 is your nitty types like myself? 12-16 are still tight, 16-22 getting to the looser side and 22+ as the loose fish we're after?

Thanks for all the advice!

Yeh that sounds about right, what stakes are you playing btw??

I have adjusted mine as I see fit to the stakes I play which at the moment is 25NL. If, when I move up I notice people are tighter, or 3 betting more I will adjust these again to suit that level...

yeah, that makes sense! i am playing 5NL atm ive had these ones since 2NL but i will hopefully be moving up to 10NL soon.

Good string....I wish all sites had a color code to be used in their software design. I am always telling the site suport group to consider it during next upgrade. IMO FTP is the best with its color codes from the different sites I play at.

I use 5 colors based on ranges of vpip/pfr and it works well for both FR and 6max since there are no real good regs in the micros.

........................6max.................................FR

Red.................ridic nit/tight...........................nit
Orange...............tight...................................TAG
Yellow.................TAG...................................LAG
Green..................LAG.......................guy giving me ez mannies
Purple.............ez mannies.......................ridic spewtard



Obvs Ill get the red and orange in the blinds or have position on the ez manny guys. Once the HUD pops up Ill get an idea whether they will be agro or passive. My HUD is also color coded based on the same ranges so I just have to match the two. I usually wait for ~100 hands before I color code anyone.