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The WWSF/WTSD Combo: A DriveHUD Stat Pair That Pinpoints Your Postflop Leak

Marcus Hale
Marcus Hale
Lead Analyst··4 min read·Tracking Tips

Most ClubGG regs obsess over preflop stats — VPIP, PFR, 3-bet — because they're easy to find and easy to judge against a chart. But preflop numbers only tell you how you enter a pot. They say nothing about what happens after the flop, which is where most win rate actually gets built or burned.

Two stats sitting quietly in your DriveHUD reports do a better job of diagnosing postflop leaks than almost anything else in the database: Won When Saw Flop (WWSF) and Went to Showdown (WTSD). Read together, they tell a story that neither one tells alone.

What Each Stat Actually Measures

WWSF is the percentage of flops you see that you end up winning, whether the hand reaches showdown or not. It captures your total postflop success rate — bets that win the pot uncontested, plus hands you win at showdown.

WTSD is simply how often you get to showdown after seeing a flop. On its own it's neutral information. A high WTSD isn't automatically bad, and a low one isn't automatically good — it depends entirely on what's paired with it.

Why the Pairing Matters

The leak-finding move is comparing the two numbers against each other, not against a universal benchmark.

  • High WTSD + low WWSF: You're getting to showdown a lot but not winning once you're there, and you're not winning many pots before showdown either. This is the classic calling-station pattern — you're paying off hands you should be folding and rarely applying enough pressure to take a pot away. Look at your Call vs. Raise frequency facing bets on the turn and river; it's usually inflated.
  • Low WTSD + low WWSF: You're folding too much postflop and not winning many uncontested pots either. This usually means you're playing fit-or-fold poker — calling or betting only with strong hands and giving up the moment resistance appears. Check your continuation-bet frequency on the turn; it's often far lower than your flop c-bet number, which is the tell.
  • Low WTSD + high WWSF: This is the profile you want. You're winning a healthy share of pots without needing to see a river, which means your bets are getting folds and your hand selection postflop is sharp.
  • High WTSD + high WWSF: Less common, but it shows up in players who are good enough to win at showdown consistently and don't need to worry about over-calling because their hand reading is strong.

How to Pull This in DriveHUD

Open your Reports tab and filter by game type and stake first — mixing fast-fold six-max with full-ring distorts both numbers. Then break the filter down further by position. A lot of players who look fine in the aggregate turn out to have a brutal WTSD/WWSF gap specifically from the blinds, where they're defending too wide preflop and then can't let go of medium-strength hands postflop.

It also helps to split the sample by street-ending action — hands that end on the flop versus hands that reach the river. If your WWSF is propped up almost entirely by flop and turn folds from opponents rather than actual showdown wins, that's useful to know: it means your edge is coming from aggression, not hand strength, and it's worth stress-testing against regs who don't fold as easily.

A Word on Sample Size

These stats stabilize more slowly than VPIP or PFR because they depend on reaching the flop and, for WTSD, reaching showdown — both narrower subsets of your overall hand count. Don't draw conclusions from a few hundred flops. Wait until you've got a few thousand postflop hands in a given position and stake before treating the gap as a real leak rather than noise.

Turning the Read Into a Fix

Once you've identified which quadrant you fall into, the fix is usually narrow and specific — tightening river calls, adding a second barrel on blank turns, or widening value bets on the river. Set up a filter for that exact spot, pull ten to fifteen hands, and watch how the hand actually played out rather than just trusting the number. The stat tells you where to look; the hand history tells you what to change.

If you're grinding on the app and want this kind of postflop breakdown waiting for you after every session, a dedicated ClubGG tracker handles the capture and reporting automatically. For anyone still getting hands imported correctly, the setup guide walks through the process end to end.

Marcus Hale
Marcus HaleLead Analyst

Marcus Hale has played online cash games and tournaments for more than a decade, grinding mid-stakes NLHE and PLO across club apps including ClubGG and ClubWPT Gold. He built his study routine around DriveHUD — filtering his database by position, line and street to find the leaks that cost him the most.

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