VPIP in online Poker games stands for 'Voluntarily Put Into Pot'. Expressed as a percentage, this term shows how many starting hands an individual player is willing to play from all positions at the table. This term started as a statistic in a widely used software tool known as 'Poker Tracker', and has now entered the main stream of strategy discussion - usually in the context of how loose or tight an individual opponent plays before the flop.
A Poker player with a high VPIP is one who likes to be involved in a lot of pots. Conversely someone with a lower score is often waiting for the very best starting hands before parting with any chips. The actual numbers will depend on the game played and whether the table is 6-handed or 10-handed. As a rule of thumb a score of >35% can be considered 'loose' and less than 18% can be considered 'tight'.
When using this term to assess opponents it is important to consider that the information gained is limited to the amount of hands played before the flop. The 'Voluntarily Put In Pot' score does not actually tell you anything about how an opponent plays their starting hands. Consider the following example of 2 players:
- #1 - Limps into a lot of pots and calls small raises regardless of position at the table.
- #2 - Folds when there are other players in the pot already except with strong hands but will always raise when the hand is folded around to him in any of the last 3 positions.
It is possible that both of these players have an identical VPIP score, yet the way they play hands is completely different. Here the important factor is how aggressively the hands were handled. There are 2 more important statistics which describe this characteristic, 'Pre Flop Aggression' and 'Aggression Factor'. Together with the VPIP score this information allows you to build a detailed picture of your opponents tendencies - and correctly adjusting to these is the key to winning while playing online poker.
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