Re: How can learn to ready hands?
[1] After YOU play a hand try to figure out which range of hands YOU could have had to play the way you did: Lets say you over-called in middle position against 5 players. Flop was A84. Early bets, you raise, one loose player cold-calls, better calls. Turn is 4. You bet they call. River is J. Everyone checks. With what hands would you do that? AT, A9? Anything else?
Notice that your actions on ALL rounds is considered: AK and AQ were NOT reasonable possibilities since you did NOT raise preflop.
[2] After an opponent plays a hand try to figure out what hands YOU could have had to play the way HE did. Just be sure NOT to presume he plays the same way you do.
[3] Notice the opponents shown-down hands and make notes on how HE plays differently than you do.
[4] Now try to put these opponents on the sorts of hands THEY would play given the way they played it.
The easiest time to put a player on a hand is when he is tight playing in early position (well actually, its when a tight players plays when another tight player raises early). The hardest is if he's weak loose playing in late position.
- Louie
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