VPIP
also called voluntarily put money in pot
VPIP is the share of hands in which a player puts money in the pot of their own accord, which counts calls and raises but not the blinds they were forced to post.
It is the quickest measure of how loose somebody is. A high figure means they are playing a great many hands, which means their range is weak on average, and that is worth more at the table than any single read.
It only means something next to the table size and next to the raise percentage. A figure that is tight at six handed play is loose at nine handed, and a large gap between the two numbers marks a player who calls rather than raises.
an example
your cards
An opponent is playing 55% of their hands. Against that range ace king is far ahead, so the hand is worth raising for value rather than treating as a hand that needs to hit the flop.
This example is made up. The real one is in your own hand history: find vpip in your own hands and see how often it came up and what it cost you.
related terms
PFR
PFR is the share of hands a player raises with before the flop, written as a percentage of the hands they were dealt.
HUD
A HUD is a display that overlays statistics about each opponent onto the table, drawn from the hands you have already pl ...
TAG
A TAG is a player who enters few pots and plays the ones they enter aggressively, which is the most common shape of a wi ...
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Forty hands against a bot, no account, and your own hand history at the end.