calling station

[clammytips]

i was in a game the other day some guy said he was usingpoker tracker.he said i was considered a calling station so i kept my stats from bodog freeroll the other night.any imput positive or negative would be helpful. any help ty.clammy

1. total hands 221 hands won 22% showdowns won59%flops seen 25%wins if flop seen52% fold 51%check 9% call 14%bet 8 %raise 15%reraise 3% fold pre flop 67%on flop3%turn4%river2%no fold 25%​

 

[clammytips]

by the way i placed 36 out of 5000 in above game

 

[mrsnake3695]

It's almost impossible to tell from a freeroll since the play is not even close to playing for decent amounts of money. If you are seeing one out of 4 flops (especially if alot of them are calling raises) then you are seeing too many. In a good money game if a good player saw you in that many pots he/she would make you pay.

 

[clammytips]

so seeing 25%of 221 hands is too much?even when i was chip leader of game after 2nd hr of play

 

[mrsnake3695]

It's on the high side. It tells me you may not be paying much attention to position preflop. Are you calling from early position with suited connectors, small pairs, Ace-rag?

 

[clammytips]

mostley on top ten hands.with a little bluff .

 

[mrsnake3695]

mostley on top ten hands.with a little bluff .

So you get a top 10 hand once every 4 hands. Sweet, I wish the cards came like that for me.

Early position should be more like the top 5 or 6 hands. If you don't have a hand you can raise with fold (mostly not always as you want to mix up your game).

It's also very difficult to bluff from early position, especially in a freeroll.

 

[clammytips]

that game was good to me

 

[bw07507]

Pokertracker cannot track bodog MTTs so he was lieing, unless he got the numbers from a cash game.

 

[aliengenius]

Pokertracker cannot track bodog MTTs so he was lieing, unless he got the numbers from a cash game.

Nice catch.

As to 25%, I have to disagree that that is high. First of all it's "flops seen" not vp$ip, so free big blinds are in there (see "check 9%" stat). Also, since he went deep in the tournament there is a bit more chance that some of this play was with less than nine players at the table.

As to being a calling station, we don't have a "went to showdown" stat, so it's kind of hard to tell. Showdowns won % is pretty high, so even if you were calling a bit more than "ideal" you may have been doing it with good reason given the nature of the game (?), i.e., you were correct with your calls.

 

[Dorkus Malorkus]

Sample size is tiny and meaningless, but there's nothing hugely abnormal in the stats.