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I would like to know different ways to learn to read hands. Can you help me.
 
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Reading hands is a lot different live than online. Which are you doing?
 
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I would like to know different ways to learn to read hands. Can you help me.

What do you mean by reading hands...you mean how to make a hand or how to know that someone else has a hand?
 
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how to know someone else his hand and I play on-line poker
 
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how to know someone else his hand and I play on-line poker

Aww now we are getting somewheres......Online it is very hard to tell when someone has a hand. But online tells can help you. One of the major online tells are the betting pattern...the more that you play with the person the more you learn there bettering patterns to tell that he hit is hand on the flop. Another way is bet value ...is it a feeler bet...is it a big bluff bet or i want you to call me bet. once you master value betting you be able to tell and make better plays
 
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There is really no guide to sussing out what an oppenant has (poker would be far to easy otherwise and you would only win when you have better cards than the other players)

Firstly my advice would be to stop doing this and start putting people on a range of hands and this will come naturally over time so just play alot more hands.

So for example when villain raises say from MP to 3x you will assign them arrange (if you do not know this player well and have no stats you have little to go on)

But as the hand progresses you can start eliminating hands from the original range you assigned them, you do this based on the way they are betting in reaction to the cards that have come off. Again you just need lots and lots of hands before you notice you are right quite alot of the time.

If your not playing too many tables also watch what hands get shown down even when your not in the hand and make notes on these payers, which will make it easier when you are in a hand against them.

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There is really no guide to sussing out what an oppenant has (poker would be far to easy otherwise and you would only win when you have better cards than the other players)

Firstly my advice would be to stop doing this and start putting people on a range of hands and this will come naturally over time so just play alot more hands.

So for example when villain raises say from MP to 3x you will assign them arrange (if you do not know this player well and have no stats you have little to go on)

But as the hand progresses you can start eliminating hands from the original range you assigned them, you do this based on the way they are betting in reaction to the cards that have come off. Again you just need lots and lots of hands before you notice you are right quite alot of the time.

If your not playing too many tables also watch what hands get shown down even when your not in the hand and make notes on these payers, which will make it easier when you are in a hand against them.

TD


Good Advice.

Range of Hands.

Position.
Board Texture.
Betting patterns.
How each player plays certain hands in relation to the table.

Watch and use the replay to look for patterns.

Replay is awesome when first starting out.
 
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IMO there's just no substitute for experience - the more you play, as long as you're paying attention, the better you should get at assigning ranges to different players and working out how you should play against them.

Post some hands that are giving you problems over in the hand analysis sections and people here can give you some help too.
 
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Position timing tells and bet sizing has alot to do with a range that your opponent has. Bet sizing allows you to get an idea of the strength of an opponents hand. Medium sized bets tend to be hands that showdown fairly well that an opponent is trying to bet to get value from your hand. Large bets tend to polarize hands, the opponent either wants you to fold a better hand or payoff his big hand. Timing tells allow you to see how much thought your opponent has put into making the decision with his hand. And obviously players open a little wider in late postion than they would in mid position so you can get an idea of a range most of the time based on the players current position.
 
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IMO there's just no substitute for experience - the more you play, as long as you're paying attention, the better you should get at assigning ranges to different players and working out how you should play against them.

Post some hands that are giving you problems over in the hand analysis sections and people here can give you some help too.

+1, you just gotta play a ton and get into the habit of thinking about what a player's range is. Don't just say "he's probably got a good hand"-- instead, think to yourself, "he open-raised UTG, he probably has a strong range here of 99+, AJs+, AQo+". As the hand goes along, try to adjust his range based on the information he's given you. Take it slowly, and I'd recommend playing just one table at a time while you're trying to work on this.

Gl on the tables.
 
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