Reading Good and Bad Players

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17Fabrizio17

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Based on my experience I can say that reading bad players is more difficult than reading good players.
Naturally I refer to reasonble levels of medium-low stakes.
I am convinced after all that there must some truth about it.
 
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Reading bad players is difficult because they don't follow optimal lines.

Reading ABC TAG players is easier because they generally do follow optimal lines, and play in such a way that it's generally evident what they're doing.

Reading good players is difficult because they know the optimal lines and disguise their hands effectively.

The latter players are sometimes mistaken for the first players, which is generally fine with them.
 
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What sly said, plus if you're defining bad players as being too loose preflop, and often passive, callling stationy postflop, their range is so wide, and doesn't get narrowed very often.
 
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reading players is ****ing easy it basically works like this I can read any player anywhere.
either
1. they have a better hand then you in a ridicolous situation eg u have KK they have AA.
2. they will make a ridicolous totally retarded play and will suck out on you eg
you raise with ak suited they assume that there k5 off suit is good against any random hand but since i have been playing tight its obvious i had just randomly decided I was going to play any two cards, they just got unlucky that i happened to have ak there. because i was really going to raise with j3 off suit based on the evidence previously i mean there einstien intelligence is so impressive that had aliens came to earth and this been the first thing that they found they would assume that slight mildest forms of life had only just started to emerge thats if they happened to be lucky enough to find the single damaged brain cell. eventually they will call when the flop a rag rag congratulating there genius that there k is likely to be good. on the turn they have a pair of fives and yeah we all know from my rants where this is going. river 5.
I mean he ****ing calls under the gun limps with j9 off suit I raise on the button with KK flop brings a 9 obviously he has to re raise me all in and hit J on river.
3. its a coin toss but they been stupid by doing something retarded eg on bubble of sit and go they call with 22 because u may be bluffing when u shoved under the gun even though 22 is a coin flip against any hand almost anyway. obviously its a slight favorite over your ak so naturally they think there the smart one and your the stupid one btw they also call with a 4 as well but hit four on flop obviously.
or you have JJ and shove under gun same situation they call you with kq obviously this is genous because they can easily be dominated by ak aq etc and even if u have pair there still under dog but no u probs shoved under the gun with j10 so they genius for calling even though the odd are negative ev anyway.
no matter what happens though you always ****ing lose money.

yeh been running bad again ****ing pissed off.
 
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