The Poker Mag

Anyone who plays poker can tell you, that the difference between playing poker successfully, or losing money over a period of time, is your ability to understand why your opponent is making a play that they are. Each hand has a story behind it that can be unscrambled, as there is almost always logical reasoning behind every decision a player makes. The moment a player raises preflop, you can usually narrow their possibilities down for the cards they are holding.

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They will almost certainly not be raising from early position with a weak hand, and the size of the bet gives it’s own clues too. Each subsequent betting round and decision they make, gives you more information to work with. If you are the one who raises first preflop, and you are faced with a reraise, you can say that the hand you are up against is likely to be stronger than if they had simply made the first raise.
If you are starting to feel that your opponent has a particular hand after they make certain moves on the flop, work backwards, considering if they were holding those cards, would they have made the previous moves they have in the hand. You couldn’t say that a player probably has two pair or top pair on a flop of (2,4,8) if they have reraised you preflop, for instance.
The key to reading in my opinion, is logic. Do not simply guess at what they might have, examine each possibility in your mind and you will find it’s not as difficult as you think to discount some hands and accept others as more probable scenarios.

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