How to do Poker Hand Reading

77 on 763r flop
4-Step HAND Reading Process
History
• Consider what we know (notes, stats, player type, image)
• Start planning the hand
Assign
• Give the a pre-flop range based on History and actions
Narrow
• As the hand progresses, remove hands from their range that don’t gel with their actions
• Utilize their street by street tendencies, actions, sizings, timing tells, physical tells, etc.
Destroy
• Make the most +EV plays that will elicit the reaction you want
• Choose plays that may confuse them in order to give you what you want
• If you’re bluffing, they should be able to fold better hands
• If you’re going for value, they should be able to call or raise with weaker hands

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  • @jonathanplanet
    @jonathanplanet4 жыл бұрын

    Great video, especeially the information on how to use flopzilla. What do you do when you have barely any reads on an opponent? Like live where you see very few hands and even less showdowns? Do you use some sort of gto hand reading approach? It's very hard for me to categorize live opponets unless I see showdowns and even then some opponents are quite confusing

  • @SmartPokerStudy

    @SmartPokerStudy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the question, Jonathan. If you have absolutely no read on an opponent, then you treat their ranges like the average player at your stakes. Most of the time you have an idea of how they play after just 20 hands, even live. Look at their actions and sizings if you never see showdown. For example, they limp a lot = Fish. They 3bet a lot = LAG. They fold a lot on the flop after calling pre = fit or fold.

  • @jonathanplanet

    @jonathanplanet

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@SmartPokerStudy thanks this really helps. I appreciate the time you took to reply to all of my comments :)

  • @SmartPokerStudy

    @SmartPokerStudy

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jonathanplanet You're welcome.

  • @RealFactsForYou24
    @RealFactsForYou244 жыл бұрын

    Hey Question, why do you classify this player as a LAG? From my experience his stats are closer to a TAG

  • @SmartPokerStudy

    @SmartPokerStudy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Because his PFR is at 20%. Most TAG's have PFR ~ 15% I think. Also, at 25% VPIP, he's playing more hands than most TAG's. My stats on this table of 21/16 are more on the TAG side. If that other player at 13/5 were at 13/10, he'd be a TAG as well but closer to the Nit side.

  • @user-dd8rm3qp5p
    @user-dd8rm3qp5p4 жыл бұрын

    questin 9:10 - Why PLOPZILLA remove TT after flop filtr? TT have strong EV on this board... I can't undestand....

  • @SmartPokerStudy

    @SmartPokerStudy

    4 жыл бұрын

    I removed them from his range because he checked and I felt he would've normally bet that strong a pocket pair.

  • @gregmajewski3406
    @gregmajewski34062 жыл бұрын

    I genuinely thought this was going to end with villain having 54 and you uninstalling the software.

  • @SmartPokerStudy

    @SmartPokerStudy

    2 жыл бұрын

    It easily could have 😂

  • @cedq4957

    @cedq4957

    11 ай бұрын

    hahaha that was funny

  • @dmitryzenin7574
    @dmitryzenin75744 жыл бұрын

    Show me please your hand reading skills if you play on a site where soft and hand histories are prohibited.

  • @SmartPokerStudy

    @SmartPokerStudy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hey, Dmitri. I would do this the same as if I were playing LIVE poker. You need to record all the details about the hand (positions, opponents and their tendencies, stack sizes, cards, bet sizes and action on each street, etc.) then use Flopzilla to assign them a preflop range then narrow that range through the streets using your read on the opponent and their decisions.

  • @dmitryzenin7574

    @dmitryzenin7574

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@SmartPokerStudy Hello, I mean I would like to see your thinking process from real world, when you cant use tracking software, flopzilla or any other such stuff, you know nothing on your villians. Nowadays almost all coaching is based on soft etc, but please give a tough sample how you put opponent on a range, count combos, estimate eguities when you only have your brain and very limited time for decision.

  • @SmartPokerStudy

    @SmartPokerStudy

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@dmitryzenin7574 I'll consider making a video on this, thanks for the idea!