[Sunny Mehta]

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The R in REM
As you mention in your book, one of the biggest differences between professionals and amateur poker players is hand reading and I think this is due to the professionals’ greater experience of playing many more hands (as well as thinking about those hands critically). I think there are certain betting patterns which are obviously strong or weak to the experienced poker player that escape the amateur’s attention. While you mention a couple of these in your book (a very passive player significantly overbetting the pot is holding a strong hand, a typical low stakes player (i.e. not very aggressive) checkraising on the turn usually has two pair or better), I think a fuller treatment of this in your next book would be very helpful in improving our ability to accurately estimate an opponent’s range. While I have not seen a very good treatment of this in any book, Ed recently had two articles on his site talking about pre-flop and post-flop betting patterns which indicated the strength of someone’s hand which were the best I had seen in this regard. I think a section on hand reading which discussed common betting patterns and opponent type-specific betting patterns would be very helpful in improving people’s estimation of opponent’s hand ranges.

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Thanks for the comment - we plan on including a lot more "range discussion" and examples in Volume Two.

-S