Re: against river check raise
 

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Sometimes you're opponents pauses because he's scratching his balls.

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or it can mean nothing at all

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yes

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The pause can equally mean that they like or dislike their hand

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no. the pause is slightly more likely to mean that opponent wants free card, is worried you just hit etc than it is to mean he is plotting to trap you or something

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Or it could mean they're:

-Watching TV and stopped looking at their computer.
-Are playing multiple tables at once and haven't looked back at that table yet.
-Are simultaneously looking at internet porn.
-Got up to get a sandwich
-Got up to get a beer
-Spilled beer on their shirt

... I think you get the point...

Live game pauses mean something because you can control for other variable. Online it's just to "noisy" a tell to base much upon.

-Willis

Re: against river check raise
 

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It is probably better not to have players taking shots at you regularly, since it will be somewhat hard to identify who is doing this and it will give you many harder decisions (read: more opportunities for mistakes) while certainly increasing your variance.

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This isn't necessarily true as having a good strong table image makes blind play (stealing/defending) much easier and more profitable IMO. If you are playing ABC tag-type poker then people taking shots at you could show some profit, but if you are playing like this you are sacrificing a ton of EV in other areas of your game that you probably need to look into.

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points taken. this is a whole different, much more interesting discussion. there is more than 1 way to skin a cat...and this area of the game is what makes limit poker tolerable

Re: against river check raise
 

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the pause is slightly more likely...

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