Advanced HUD Stats: Steal, C-Bet, WTSD, WWSF

An opponent’s HUD reads ATS 58, fold to c-bet 60, WWSF 52, WTSD 24. Before the hand is even dealt, those four numbers hand you a full plan: he steals relentlessly, surrenders most flops, wins his pots by betting rather than showing down, and folds when he misses. Attack his steals preflop with light 3-bets, c-bet freely when you continue, and don’t pay off his big barrels lightly — but do bluff-catch, because a WTSD of 24 means his showdown range is thin. That is the payoff of the advanced HUD layer: it turns a vague “he’s aggressive” into spot-by-spot instructions.

Once VPIP, PFR, and 3-bet are second nature, the advanced stats tell you how an opponent wins — their blind-stealing, their flop pressure, and their showdown tendencies. Here is what each number means and where the exploit thresholds sit.

ATS: attempt to steal

ATS — attempt to steal — is the percentage of times a player open-raises from the cutoff, button, or small blind in an unopened pot. Those are the seats where the whole point is winning the blinds, so ATS is a cleaner aggression read than PFR, which averages every position together.

• Under 25% — too tight late; their late opens are strong, so respect them.
• 35–45% — balanced, a typical thinking regular.
• Over 55% — a serial stealer. 3-bet light and defend your blinds wider.

Its natural partner is fold to steal, how often the blinds give up to a late raise. Against someone folding 70% or more, widen your steals relentlessly from late position — you’re printing chips uncontested.

C-bet and fold to c-bet

C-bet (continuation bet) is how often a player bets the flop after raising preflop. Fold to c-bet is how often they cave to one.

• A c-bet around 55–70% is standard; much higher means they fire too many flops and can be floated with the plan to take the pot away later.
• A fold to c-bet of 55%+ is a green light — c-bet almost every flop against them, cards be damned, because the fold equity carries the bet.

These extend the core HUD stats from preflop aggression into postflop pressure.

WTSD and WWSF: the showdown pair

Two of the most revealing numbers only mean something together:

• WTSD — Went To ShowDown. Of hands where they saw the flop, how often they reach showdown. High means sticky and hard to bluff off.
• WWSF — Won When Saw Flop. Of flops seen, how often they win the pot by any means. High means they take pots down through aggression.

The combination decodes the player’s style:

A 50/28 player (WWSF 50%, WTSD 28%) wins a lot without showing down — bluff-catch them lighter, because they’re taking pots with air. A 42/34 player calls too much and wins little — value-bet them thin and cut out your bluffs entirely.

Reactions to pressure: fold to 3-bet and the double barrel

Two more stats round out an advanced layout, both about how a player handles being pushed:

• Fold to 3-bet — how often they fold after their open gets 3-bet. Above ~65% means their opens are exploitable; 3-bet them light for the fold. Below ~40% means they defend wide, so 3-bet thinner for value and cut the light bluffs.
• Turn c-bet (double barrel) — how often they fire the turn after c-betting the flop. A high flop c-bet paired with a low turn c-bet flags a player who gives up on the turn; float their flop bets and take the pot when they check.

These stack neatly with the steal war. A player who steals 55% but folds to 3-bets 70% of the time is handing you free chips every time you re-raise a late open — the two stats together make the exploit obvious.

Reading them without fooling yourself

Advanced stats reward discipline, because they’re easy to misread on thin data.

• Sample first. Steal, c-bet, and fold-to-c-bet want a thousand-plus hands; positional splits want several thousand. Below that, treat the number as a hint.
• Layer position. Every advanced stat shifts by seat. Read it next to where the player is acting, never as one flat average across all positions.
• Watch the pool, not just the seat. In a soft pool, whole clusters of players share the same leak — over-folding to steals, giving up on the turn. The advanced stats let you spot that pattern across the table and press it everywhere at once.

Master ATS and fold-to-steal for the preflop steal war, c-bet and fold-to-c-bet for flop pressure, and the WWSF/WTSD pair for showdown reads, and you’ll play against opponents with a clarity most of the table never has. Build these on the core stats, remember they only exist because a HUD is logging every hand, and treat the whole layer as one connected picture rather than isolated numbers.