Value of TAG stats

So I have played close to 4k hands since my last update. I'm still running pretty good, and also I think I'm playing good. What I'm pretty proud of currently is the ability to criticize my winning session, which can get really hard. I have lately started to copy hands that I struggle with immediately while playing because my usual session review consists of only watching the big hands. Session reviews can get time consuming when you are able to put in 1k hands per hour. But anyways, here are my stats for Thursday and Friday:



So I'm 200 away from reaching my January bankroll goal, and my move to 50nl. As I was playing on UB in November 2007, I tried to move up to 50nl with a bankroll under 1000$ multiple times. The experience I gained from this was that I'm very bad at playing under rolled. Everybody says that 50nl plays similar to 25nland from my experience/datamining thats true. But I tend to overplay certain situations when I don't have a big roll. I found the same thing when I moved up from 10nl to 25nl.

So this time I'm going with 30BIs to 50nl, will start by playing only 4 tables and move down to 25nl again if I lose more than 6 buy ins. But I don't think this is gonna happen. For the first 2-3 sessions I will do very detailed session reviews, look for adjustments needed for the new limit.

I'm also happy that I heard today from CR member Bigslick that he is progressing at 10nl. Its been a few days since I did s sweat session with him, where I tried to fix a few of his biggest leaks, and I would be pleased to continue with this. It's a very nice feeling to being able to help others, thats why I'm posting so much at the CR micro forums too, and I won't gonna stop this even while I move up to higher stakes.

There is currently a discussing going on the forums about tough competition at 25nl on FTP. A few guys were complaining about table selection being pretty hard and most tables being full of solid TAG players. This made me think a bit about pahud stats on villains, and how to play against those "solid" players. I came to a point that I think is pretty crucial to understand:

Everybody can take a hand chart that dictates how he has to play pre flop, when to raise and when to fold. Also you can start continuation betting every time you were the pre flop aggressor and either give up or value bet on turn depending on your hand.

With that said, you are a Level 1 thinking player that will show up in my hud as a solid TAG player. Your stats should easily look like 18/15/2 which most micro stakes players will interpret as good. But my no means you are a good player. In reality, these are the type of players you should be fine to play against. Pre flop you can steal from that in position a lot, if they are to your right you can defend your blinds against there steals by 3 betting very easy, and in position you can call their raises a lot with SCs and small PPs and either float them or take their whole stack when they go with TP all the way.

The best thing with all that is, they are not going to adjust to you, because that is what makes the difference between solid break even TAGs at 25nl, and those who are winning and moving up: Adjusting to your table and your opponents, and getting a Level 2 thinker.

Thanks for reading,
Thomas