Deciphering Opponents Cards |
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Posted Mon Jun 19, 2006 5:50 pm GMT by lwestatbus
I'm looking for a reference to how to go about deciphering the cards your opponents might be holding. I watched Howard Lederer talk through an example from a tournament where Daniel Negranau had called his opponent's cards dead bang on target. (This was on Learn from the Pros--a great show.) Howard's analysis made perfect sense. I've seen a lot of other examples where pros in tournaments are excellent at calling out their opponents' cards. Marcell Luske did it a few times in 2004 WSOP, "How do you like your Kings?"
Does this analysis only work on competent players? I remember hearing Doyle Brunson comment that playing the multitude of Internet amateurs was much more difficult than playing the experienced pros.
I'm not talking about physical tells, but about analyzing betting patterns.
Can anyone point me to a book that covers this?
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Posted Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:05 pm GMT by supafrey
That's a very complicated question.
Experience is the best tool, but obviously that's not a luxury that most people have.
Best advice is to stick to one particular stakes and try to remember how YOU would play your hands. Try to peg your players for being strong/weak, and remember how those two general groups of people play the particular situation.
I didn't help at all, did I. =/
Posted Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:47 am GMT by Phil14312
When Doyle says its harder to read an internet amateur, its probably because he has actually played with most of the top players for quite a few hands.
But, I agree with Supa, but I go further in limit and classify players as weak/tight, calling stations, aggro, solid, etc and then generally figure how each of those players play certain hands and go from there.
Posted Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:57 am GMT by Dias
The reason pros say amateurs are hard to put on hands is because of the inconsistent play they tend to have
Pros (for the most part) are going to play quality hands. While quality hands are in the eye of the beholder, they arent gonna be calling pre-flop raises with 4 9 off suit
even aggressive pros tend to stick to higher quality hands and are therefore a bit easier to reason out what they may have
I read an article in All-in magazine where Daniel N calls out Deeb's hand in a tourney after Deeb bets the river. The article laid out the thought process of the whole hand and how it was bet and how Daniel deduced his hand correctly and made the call
(This may be the hand Lederer used, Im not sure.)
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