
And now that you know what VPIP is you can start using a hud better and finding new ways to exploit your opponents based on simple statistics! VPIP is the most powerful stat because it’s calculated in pretty much every single hand and gives great information while converging the fastest of any stat on your hud. Getting a quick statistical idea of how loose or tight a player enters pots and using that to estimate the hands he’d play and the strength of his hand ranges. For VPIP I consider 40 hands to be a broad idea, 100 hands to be a good idea, and 300+ hands to be a great idea. Over a few hands a TAG could get zero playable hands and look like a nit, or get a string over hot hands and look like an aggressive fish…but over time you’ll get more hands and his VPIP will average out to a more realistic portrayal of his actual play style. Just remember to keep sample size in mind.

But players with very low VPIPs are almost always nitty and players with very high VPIPs are more likely to be fish.
GOOD STATS POKERTRACKER FULL
For instance, it’s common for a TAG at full ring to have a VPIP of about 15% and a TAG at 6max is usually going to be closer to 20%. In general players at 6max will have higher VPIPs. These players enter too many pots, usually with weak hands, and they are easy to spot with this large VPIPs. If we were to quickly graph VPIP ranging from 0% to 100% what we would find is players with very high VPIPs, usually 40% or higher are going to be fishy players. Over large samples, even of just 100 hands or more, we will get a nice idea on how many pots a player is voluntarily entering and we can use that information to take better lines. With no walks, he would have a VPIP of 2/5, or 40%. So if a player plays 5 hands and they looked like: This is because the formula for VPIP is again the Number of Times Player Put Money In Pot / (Number of Hands – Number of Walks). Normally when we look at a hud we won’t see players with 100% or 0% VPIPs. And it doesn’t matter if the big blind bets, check/calls, or even check/raises the flop…the fact that he voluntarily puts money into the pot gives him VPIP for THIS hand. If the BB were to check the flop and then fold facing a multi-way flop cbet, he would not have voluntarily put money into the pot and he would end up with a 0% VPIP for the hand when he foldsīut if instead he bets the flop then he DID voluntarily put money in and would get a 100% VPIP for the hand. Remember, the blind is a forced bet so his VPIP for this hand is currently unmarked. We know MP and the CO both have 100% VPIP in this hand, but what about the BB? At this point, the BB hasn’t voluntarily put money into the pot.

In this hand MP open-limps, the CO limps behind, and the BB checks his option. That being said, there is one special situation that I want to discuss real quick. Regardless of what happens from this point onward in the hand everyone’s VPIP for THIS hand is set in stone.

But because UTG had already voluntarily put money into the pot with his $1 open-limp, he still keeps his 100% VPIP for the hand. And lastly, the UTG open-limper decides to fold. The BB on the other hand decides to call, voluntarily putting in an extra $4 and thus gets 100% VPIP. The 50 cent small blind was a forced bet and when the SB folds before putting any voluntary money into the pot he will have a 0% VPIP. Now players new to the concept may be confused because the SB did put money into the pot with his 50 cent blind, but remember, the key part of VPIP is the voluntarily aspect. The button folds, giving him a 0% VPIP and the SB folds as well.
