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WTSD%? Forget It

Are you using WTSD (Went to Showdown) stats to get to know your opponents better? It's not a problem if you don't, since it is an unreliable system for describing a player. There are much better ways now to predict your opponent's actions, for example, calculating street-by-street fold stats.

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WTSD is really hard to interpret. If you look at it closely, it will only give you the percentage with which a player is going all the way through showdown and you don't know whether he is really conservative, plays extremely tight, or just being aggressive. The problem with this is that you need to add other data (such as VPIP, aggression, stack size, pot size, etc.) to know about the specific player. However, if you calculate and use the street-by-street fold stats of a player, it will give you the chance to look at your opponent's folds at different stages of the hand, so you can maximize the money you can get out of him, for example, if you know he won't fold to a raise on the river.

If you like the idea, check out this article at PokerTableRatings.com. Here they help you how to set up various poker software to help you utilize street-by-street poker stats, and get some more info about the math behind it and its benefits versus WTSD as well.

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