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klaouzo's picture
optimal VPIP from the big blind against minraise

Hi, I play 57% of hands out of position over 20 big blinds deep. I'd like to know what would be the % of hands to play from the big blind at around 15 big blinds and 10 big blinds and also 5 big blinds Personally,. below 8 big blinds, I just use the nash charts .

 

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For what it's worth, VPIP is

For what it's worth, VPIP is a bit of a stupid stat in its default form in tracking software. That's because it includes play versus limps--when you check back it counts as not VPIPing, when you ISO it counts towards VPIP. This means it's not a good stat to look at.

Vs a min-raise, a balanced vpip is ~80%. It varies only a small amount with stack depth--for example 23bb it's 80.75, while 15bb it's 77.3% and 11bb it's 74.5% (there's basically no min-raising 10bb and shallower in balanced play).

Of course though, what's maxEV will depend on player. Vs very strong min-raising ranges you should defend less, vs weak ranges you can defend more.

Calling shoves with Nash is fine. There's room to have more specific calling ranges deeper than 8bb of course, you can compute these using shove software and estimating population shoving ranges.

Hope this helps!