In my first book, The Statistics of Poker, I analyzed about 6 million hand histories for online NL50 and NL100. But just how many hands should we be playing? Online VPIP Clearly online poker games play a lot tighter. We see from Figure 1 (Row 1) that the average Vegas $1/$2 player has a VPIP of 37 percent, which is nearly 70 percent looser than the average online NL100 player who has a VPIP of just 22 percent. Key stats for Online and Vegas NLH games. This is simply a measure of how loose a player is. One key statistic showing that difference is VPIP percentage, which refers to how often players Voluntarily Put money In the Pot. My previous article, 'Low Stakes Live Games Differ From Online,' pointed out that live, low-stakes no-limit hold'em games - what I call 'Donkey Games' - play much differently than much tougher online games.
