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Poker IQ Score
Your General Poker IQ Score is 132 and shows how skilled you are in general. Anyone with a score this high is considered to be a high stakes pro. This score is better than 98.36% of all persons taking this test. You have a strong technical understanding of poker and should expect to do well in most high stakes NL hold'em games. You scored higher than your average percentile score in 7 individual ability categories. 3 of these better scores could be called statistically significant and may indicate special abilities, or that you were distracted on those parts of the IQ Test that counted more heavily in the other ability categories. Position Solving many of the IQ Test's problems required the ability to analyze your position at the table, considering blind levels and stack sizes, the tendencies of your opponents and the strength of your hand.. Many poker situations require analysis of position. The ability to play in and out of position strongly is required for skilled NL Hold’em players. Your Positional Play score of 88% is exceptionally higher than your average score.This score is better than 99.83% of all persons taking this test. Blinds Understanding what changes occur when out of position but required to put in half a bet are important. By far, the blinds will be any NL Hold’em player's least profitable seats. It is important to play out of the blinds correctly in order to minimize losses over time. Your Blinds score of 82% is exceptionally higher than your average score.This score is better than 99.44% of all persons taking this test. Tournaments This is the ability to change your strategy, hand strengths, calling and pushing ranges as blinds and antes rise. It is most useful during tournament play, but is useful in dealing with short stacks in deeper stacked cash game play. It is important to learn tournament skills even for cash game specialists. Strong tournament skills should translate to more tournament cashes and deeper finishes. Your Tournament Play score of 47% is significantly lower than your average score.This score is better than 52.66% of all persons taking this test. Big Pairs The ability to play big pairs correctly is important for any successful NL Hold’em player. Although over time big pairs will be the most profitable hands, playing them incorrectly can lead to disastrous results. Beginners get themselves into trouble by slow playing and/or overplaying big pairs, and often try to be excessively tricky with them. Although poor players sometimes play their big pairs correctly, it is rare. In general better players will win more and lose less with JJ+ as they gain skill and experience. Your Big Pairs score of 72% is not significantly different from your average score.This score is better than 96.41% of all persons taking this test. Small and Medium Pairs The ability to play small and medium pairs is typically difficult for beginners. Typically beginners will call too much pre-flop with these hands and overplay overpairs on the flop. Folding a set is rarely correct but sometimes necessary. Your Small and Medium Pairs score of 100% is exceptionally higher than your average score.This score is better than greater than 99.99% of all persons taking this test. Bluffing Bluffing is big part of NL Hold’em. Bluffing and semi-bluffing at the right times is important. So is recognizing that an opponent is likely to be bluffing and acting accordingly. Balancing your own bluffs and adjusting opponent calling ranges is essential. Your Bluffing score of 64% is significantly lower than your average score.This score is better than 89.74% of all persons taking this test. Flop Texture Adjusting your play based on the "texture" of the flop is important. The flop cards should be analyzed in light of your opponent's tendencies, his suspected hand range, and the strength of your own hand. Failing to include the flop texture in your post flop decision making is a typical beginner mistake and is easily disastrous. As you gain experience in NL Hold’em and play against more experienced opponents, it will become second nature and of paramount importance. Your Flop Texture score of 81% is exceptionally higher than your average score.This score is better than 99.32% of all persons taking this test. Pot Odds Sometimes you are required to call when you know you're losing because the price is right. Sometimes you must fold because you're facing a bet that is too big or because an opponent does not have enough money behind to justify an implied odds call. Failing to make the correct odds calls is a major error. Sometimes it is correct to call in some surprising situations. Your Pot Odds score of 63% is significantly lower than your average score.This score is better than 88.49% of all persons taking this test. Logic Logically analyzing the action during a hand is important. Players with strong logical ability are quicker to see where a given set of conditions is leading, better understand the technical aspects of the game, often move up quickly in stakes and have little trouble with bankroll management. Your Logic score of 80% is not significantly different from your average score.This score is better than 99.18% of all persons taking this test. Betting Patterns An awareness of betting patterns serves a number of purposes. It is useful for analyzing the playing styles of opponents and for finding errors in your own game. Often beginning players have no awareness of common betting patterns. Experienced players are sometimes able to watch a hand, adjust for the skill, experience and tendencies of each player and determine almost exactly what each player holds. Your Betting Patterns score of 79% is not significantly different from your average score.This score is better than 99.02% of all persons taking this test. Hand Selection It is important choose which hands to play by adjusting for position, stack sizes, and the tendencies of your opponents. Beginners often have no awareness of relative hand strength, often play weak hands out of position, or easily dominated hands against tight opponents. Your Hand selection score of 76% is not significantly different from your average score.This score is better than 98.36% of all persons taking this test. Aggression Aggression is important in poker. It increases your equity in most hands by giving you an extra way to win the pot. Your opponent may fold. Playing passively yields only one way to win -- with the best hand at showdown. Beginners typically play too loose and too passive. Excessively aggressive players will lose less than passive players. A balanced tight aggressive strategy is typically best for NL Hold’em depending on game conditions and stack sizes. Loose aggressive style is more difficult to master but can often be extremely profitable. Your Aggression score of 75% is not significantly different from your average score.This score is better than 98.06% of all persons taking this test. Computational Speed Solving problems quickly indicates a combination of experience and card sense. Experienced players can often play most hands automatically, and only require significant thought for the most complex situations. Experienced players should easily answer a good amount of the questions on this test, leaving extra time to focus on the more complex situations. Your Computational Speed score of 79% is not significantly different from your average score.This score is better than 99.02% of all persons taking this test. Too bad this test isn't the end all be all of poker skill or I would apparently own ass. Tournies are for sure the weakest part of my game as this test confirmed. |
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