Getting familiar with the types of hands your opponents could be playing is a skill that will take your game to the top.
Look into your opponents' soul, read their deepest thoughts and then call that bluff!
We've all seen it (or experienced it) at some point, a player makes an inconceivable call, leaving us scratching our heads thinking:
‘WOW! How did they make that ca[...] Read more » Hand Reading for Beginners
Joined: Mar '11
Location: United Kingdom
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I find these sort of insights fascinating and i love trying to learn about them. It proves that all the top players have so many hidden talents to their game and it is frightening just how good they are
Joined: Aug '10
Location: Germany
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The gaming style changes with the time and so it was not easy to read a bluff only. But in the lower stakes you see a lot of players on tilt and so you have a good chance to win allin situations with the better hand. Only suckouts are a problem
Joined: May '08
Location: Lithuania
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yeah yeah... blah blah sh1t... read more similar articles and you can see through hole cards... oh and i find it fitting the end of story "this article was brought to you by 888poker", basically saying- why don't you come and test your newly acquired "hand reading" skills to our site... and don't feel disappointed if you lost... you just haven't learned enough, there's part 2, part 3 and the rest of 15889 part in this 15982 post series.
Joined: Jan '17
Location: Lithuania
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I too like to read souls and know what my opponents have, wiw how fun it would be to play poker when i know what opponents have, i can only dream about this, buti imagine that it is so easy to make money in this situation, but in reality we xan only guess and try to make as good guess as we can
Joined: Feb '08
Location: Canada
Age: 37 (M)
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SOME PLAYERS are so annoying or like when I have AA and flop comes A10Q2J AND THEY HAVE KK but still go all in on flop with real money sometimes stupid but they still hit and win the hand
Joined: Mar '11
Location: Romania
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Posts: 97
This is true: "The better you become at hand reading, the better a poker player you will become. It can be the difference between a profitable or not so profitable session."
Joined: May '08
Location: Lithuania
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i think that some dudes highly overestimate their abilities at the table, namely their hand reading skills... let me get this straight- you can't read a hand, you can just think that there is a good chance that your opponents has one or other hand, but this is still not hand reading, it's just a guess, g.so let's call things the way they are- not hand reading, but hand guessing
Joined: Mar '14
Location: Japan
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It is not always easy to assign or narrow down the hand range of your opponents, especially if you are playing at micro stakes tables full of calling stations. They might call your 3 or 4-bet with Q3 suited, T5 suited, or whatever.
Joined: Apr '17
Location: Argentina
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I just walk in learning how to get me to do something like that haha little by little because if my head burns I think that little by little you learn and the more you can better to go forward every time more in improving the game own
Joined: Feb '11
Location: United Kingdom
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I love the skill of hand reading so much that I have been observing the higher abilities of my opponents. In one game I raised UTG with AA and this dude in MP3 came all in. I assessed that he had Ax or mid pair..... that wouldn't be too unreasonable now would it. I considered why hand he had me on as I had shown a few games previously raising with KK in MP1. So.... I went all in too and the flop came 7, K, 9. Not a particularly bad flop but dangerous in terms of my assessment that he may have mid pair! The Turn comes as a Q No harm in that card I thought! The river sails down as a 2. Still no great danger to our assessed hands but as we are all in there is no opportunity to influence the game from here!
Oh...so I forgot to mention... we obviously had turned our cards.... and he had shoved with 72o. Of course he had read me perfectly and I was a mile away as he had shoved with nothing and WON! His interpretation of my hand (nor mine of his) contributed nothing to this game.
