[Everlong]

OK, I will bite...since this is one of the many things I feel I could improve...

I guess you make a valid point - being able to play the opponent up to as much as 65% would be awesome - Nirvana...

I try and pay attention as much as I can. Perhaps my reading skills suck, and add to that the fact that I play mainly nickel&dime buy-ins make playing "read-based" a pretty risky undertaking.

I wonder about the notion of "knowing how the other player plays"? I am not saying that people play totally at random - but just as you point out that most of us do not take full advantage of all the information available at the table - a lot of players do not have any nobel-prize-candidate thought process behind the way they bet, call or raise.

So for me personally, I feel that trying to pick up a pattern that is not there will often provide me with a false sense of security.

And I can't say that I play the same players often enough to have a reliable feel of their play to allow me to treat J7o as I would AA.


Heaven - I have read and enjoyed a lot of your posts, especially the one on notes.

How do you technically go about establishing your reads - and how much action would you say you need to witness before labeling a player or having his style pinned down?