I bought PokerTracker last month and I'm becoming more and more fascinated by it. I'm not sure whether this should go in the PT forum (because it involves PT) or here (because it sort of involves NL hand analysis) so if it's in the wrong spot I apologise.

Anyway, after reading the excellent guides on this site I have been using PT a lot trying to improve my game and I feel the results have been very positive. I've identified several leaks (AK/AQ for example, which seems common) and have also found a new motivation for playing hands well... to make the stats look good.

Now since I am a relative newbie to this still I'd appreciate if someone could just check my relevant numbers and point out any obvious or not-so-obvious things I should adjust, fix immediatly or just look at. This is just the stats for May (I've changed a lot of things since April so this seems more relevant):

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Vp$ip: 22.89 (This has gone down slightly)
Vp$ip from SB: 41.88 (I am thinking this could be a bit high)
Folded SB to steal: 100 (this seems a big high..)
Folded BB to steal: 65 (I really don't bother defending blinds in cashgames, maybe I should)

Won$WSF: 38.36 (this has gone up slightly)
BB/100 Hands: 16.07 (On it's way up )

Went to SD: 31.25 (this dropped a bit)
Won $ at SD: 58.46 (This has gone up but needs work, yes?)
PF Raise: 5.65 (This has gone down a lot, used to be 7+, too passive?)

Aggression (can't get preflop aggression for some reason):
Flop: 2.74
Turn: 2.30
River: 1.56
Total: 2.33 (this has gone up a bit in general, not a lot but a bit)

Positions:
I make money from all positions except SB and UTG+1. Probably should be as tight utg+1 as I am UTG. I actually make money from BB...

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My main priority right is to get the Won $ at SD up above 60 by learning to not pay off people as much as I do (duh!). At the moment I am rated as "Ultra-Aggressor", used to be sLA. I don't feel like an UA... I feel more like "semi tight pretty aggressive" but there doesn't seem to be such a category. I'm not sure that I like how I raise less preflop now (I've taken to limping AQ/AJs and 99-JJ more often, guess that is a big part of it). Anyway, what should I be doing here? Any suggestions other than "Tie your stats around your ankles and jump off a bridge" are appriciated


Most hands are played at 0.1/0.2 No-Limit or Pot-Limit, some from 0.25/0.50

Thanks for the feedback! I'll try to explain some parts further

VP$IP from SB: 41.88
This is mostly from unraised pots. I tend to call with any hand that has ANY sort of potential if I can see a flop for half price. This means any ace, Jxs and one-gappers, even two-gappers down to 97. I really HATE playing blinds against raises though so if the pot is raised I will be much more selective.

Unless someone is a notorious blind-stealer I won't try to defend against a real raise (4xbb+), I just don't like playing marginal hands out of position. The way I see it, every hand I play I put my stack at risk, I don't want to risk 100bb+ to defend 1bb with bad cards and horrible position. I guess I need to work on blind defense but I have felt that in NL/PL it's not as important as in FL, my "style" is to try and win few big pots instead of many small ones, if that makes sense. I see the bb's more like the fee I pay for getting cards all the time, a subscription you might say

Preflop raising
Hmm.. the way I count I pretty much do raise with 1/4 of the hands. If I count pfr/vpip=24.6% or did you mean it another way?

I do however dislike raising out of position. The only hands I pretty much always raise from the first 3 seats (unless I am trapping) are QQ+ and AK. This is an adjustment I have done somewhat recently and I haven't been able to evaluate it completely but so far I feel like I am getting away from marginal hands (AQ, JJ-) a lot easier now that I am not raising them up front. I used to have problems with that.

However, I am now moving towards raising more in position with speculative hands. Basically the idea is to raise most of the time from CO or the Button if I am going to play, both with the standard raising hands and SC's, small/medium pairs etc. This of course ruins the implied odds so I am not sure if it is a good idea.

Aggression
I've been more active in smaller pots lately, often betting middle pair and pretty much all draws if there is 3 players or less in. I'm probably going to be doing this even more so the flop aggression should be going up. I guess my River aggression is a bit low, I tend to chicken out and not bet for value if I have the option to check behind and I'm unsure of my hand. Probably need to work on this too.

Position
My vpip on the button (highest): 24.92
My vpip UTG (lowest): 12.50

Sample size
~10,000 hands


Thanks again for the feedback, much appreciated