How to do Poker Hand Reading

[@jonathanplanet]

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]

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]

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

[@SmartPokerStudy]

@@jonathanplanet You're welcome.

[@ГригорийПелех-м9ф]

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

[@SmartPokerStudy]

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

[@RealFactsForYou24]

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

[@SmartPokerStudy]

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.

[@gregmajewski3406]

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

[@SmartPokerStudy]

It easily could have 😂

[@cedq4957]

hahaha that was funny

[@dmitryzenin7574]

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

[@SmartPokerStudy]

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]

@@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]

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