The following discussion, found in the PokerEDGE Community Forum, helps to understand the PokerEDGE Pre-Flop Re-Raise stat, PF-RRaise.
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I have been using the PF-Raise percentage very effectively. It has been helping me alot about knowing when to Reraise, call, or fold. I recently added the PF-RRaise stat to my HUD hoping to get some kind of feel for if someone is reraising me light. However, I don't know if I'm perceiving this number correctly. Most people I am seeing are only having a PF-RRaise percentage of about .5% to 1%. That would seem to me that they are only reraising with AA & KK. Am I calculating that correctly, or is there a better way to get an idea of what hands they reraise with based on the stat?
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as this questions sits -unanswered- quite a while now i might add that its always a good idea
to include which type of game being played and at what stakes or level to narrow in the possible answers/opinions.
in general id say your assumption isnt wrong ; ) low PF-RR figures 0.5-1.0
would indicate the player is reraising at a normal rate, possibly strong.
higher PF-RR stats from 2.0 and higher would indicate that the opponent
much propably cant have AA or KK all the time when he reraises preflop
and above 3 and 4 hes definitely an aggressive player.
i play only tourney SnG & MTTs and there id say the PF-RR could mean various:
* the re-raiser thinks the initial raiser only wants to steal
* with some limpers the re-raiser thinks the initial raiser only wants to squeeze
* the re-raiser holds AK or Ax and doesnt really want to play the hand out neither fold
* the re-raiser wants to get as much money into the pot as possible
* the re-raiser thinks hes a better player than the initial raiser and hopes to outplay him later
* if the re-raiser is smallstacked hes willing to race against the initial-raiser
* if the re-raiser is bigstacked he might just race against anybody
* the re-raiser holds anything from 22 up with what hes willing to race now
* the re-raiser actually has the goods
* often initial raiser and re-raiser both have good cards . . .
definitely the PF-RR stats should be seen with all other stats together
meaning a mouse or rock re-raising could be a better hand than the maniac's.
a green players re-raise could come from a much wider range than from a red player.
someone re-raising often but going seldomly to showdown might just try to outplay with a loose aggressive style.
in SnGs the green players in the Lookup in general will leave the game before the payouts (tourney poker).
though the stats can never exactly tell you which cards the villain holds
they will assist in drawing up a game-plan at the beginning of the hand.
if i get re-raised, i allready should have known what to do then - before my initial raise.
against someone with high PF-RR it makes less sense to bluff, if hes catching me 2 often.
i might even consider limping to exploit his aggression later if i hit,
or to see the flop cheaper by calling his raise (yes..) rather than calling his re-raise.
or try to induce his re-raise by only betting a low amount with good cards
instead of scaring him out of the hand with too much strength.
if there has been a raise and a re-raise and i have no cards or convincing chip-odds to gamble with
i dont get involved in the hand - no matter what the other guys might have : )
on the other hand, if the odds are right one might consider to get going anyway ; )
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