Learning to read players

[twoakers]

I am having trouble learning to read players. If someone is extreemely loose or tight, I can notice that, but I do not think I am making the progress I should be making regarding identifying as much useful info as I could. I play almost exclusively online, and find it hard to keep the players str8 in my mine. B&M games are much easier for me to read, because each person is distcint, as opposed to the general icons, etc, of the online games.

Since I play at the same site all of the time, and eventually see many of the same opponents, I have thought of concentrating on a specific player or two for extended periods. Although this would take a while, at least I'd be gaining info for the future on a couple players, rather than trying to keep track of all of them, and screwing it up. Basically, I would be trying to keep track of a few things and doing it well, rather than spreading my self thin keeping track of a bunch of people and doing it poorly.

Are there specific things to look for that help narrow the opponent down, rather than trying to track each bet, fold, etc. Many times I watch someone al the way to the river, then they fold, and I don't know what they had. Good people can still get a read off this, I can't.

I've studied Caro's videos on "tells" but they don't seem to do me much good online.

Thanks for any help you can provide.