If they bet very quickly, it means they knew what they were going to do ahead of time, and didn’t need to see the action ahead of them to make up their mind about what they were going to do. The timing of the bet can tell you something as well. Watch the cards, watch how the opponent bets them, and infer what you can. It’s more or less the same for the Turn and River cards. Sometimes a player might check-raise as a bluff. Sometimes a monster hand will slow play, just calling passively, letting other players do the betting, until the river. Normally a player who does that is very confident that they have the best hand. If someone else bets, and they come back and raise it when it comes back around to them, that’s a show of strength. But it could also mean that they have a very strong hand, and don’t want to scare the other players away from betting. Do they check? Bet? Raise? What does this tell you? Checking could mean they haven’t made a hand, and aren’t willing to risk more chips. Then, all you have to do is observe their behavior. (I’m ignoring the full-on bluff for now, this is not something you can do profitably until you’re more experienced.) So then, once you’ve assessed whether you’re in the hand, think about what cards a reasonable opponent would need to hold in order to also be in the hand. If you have top pair and a good kicker, or better, then you’re in the hand, and if so, then and only then does it really matter what your opponent might be holding. f you hit top pair, or better, you may be in good shape. Did this flop hit you? Did you make a pair, two pair, or trips? Did you flop a straight, flush, or boat? IYou could even flop quads. You must quickly evaluate where you’re at. Are they shoving every hand? Probably they’re not holding AA in each of those hands.Īfter the flop: Those three cards will tell you a lot. You can start to doubt them after you observe their play for a while, if you’re seeing behavior that doesn’t match up with what you know about probability. (Notice how many qualifiers there are in that sentence?) But you don’t know for sure until and unless you see them.īut usually you can probably take most people at their word. Really what it tells you is something about what cards they are representing that they may have. Preflop: did your opponent limp? Raise? Call a raise? 3-bet? More-bet? All of that can tell you something about the cards he’s holding. This is where looking at the bets tell you comes into play.
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Let’s say you have developed this feel, and you’re now thinking about how to get a read on your opponent. And, once you’ve been playing a while, you don’t need to literally count all the possible cards that could make a better hand than you can make, and the cards that could make your hand better you get a feel for this after playing long enough, and that’s generally good enough. What cards could beat my hand? What cards could improve my hand (on the flop, turn, river)? Are there more cards that beat my hand than can improve my hand? If so, you probably want to think about getting out of the hand, regardless of what your opponent holds.
Now, if you are in the hand, you just work back from that.
What do these cards tell you about the strength of your hand? Are you in this hand, or not? You’re in the hand if you think your cards are particularly strong, otherwise you’re not. We’re only able to look at the ones that are face up: that is, the ones in your hand, and the ones that have been laid out on the board. You don’t actually know anything about what your opponent might have, until they are put to a bet.īefore we get to that, let’s talk about just the cards. Reading the cards that are visible is the easiest and most direct way to read into your opponent. Usually people chat between hands, or when they’re out of hands, and not during, so you can mostly discount (4). Online, the only things that you can directly observe are:
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