Hand reading question

[Albert Moulton]

Most people can be stereotyped into loose/tight and passive/aggressive. That makes for LP, LA, TP, TA. With pokertracker, you can get a feel for how preflop aggression might be different than post flop aggression, but that is often more difficult to do live because the hand sample is usually pretty small. Instead, you might add "tricky post flop" and "straight forward" post flop.

So, put somebody in one of those four general categories, and play accordingly until you get information that makes you change your read.

If it helps, think of them as if they are PT icons (i.e. eagle (TA), fish (LP), tazmanian devil or dice (LA), and mouse (TP). Phil Helmuth's book uses similar "animals" to categorize player tendencies, but I didn't really like his book very much so I use different ones.