"reading minds" in poker

[bearcats54]

umm so you put them on exactly a flush draw and a set from there pf calls and checking the flop to you. this is like opening up to the right page in a book or something and getting all excited and thinking you have some kind of special talent. i want my time back [censored]

[GiantBuddha]

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The Mets part of your dream is trivial. The Mets probably play 5-6 times a weak in early autumn.

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The other plane landed outside of Pittsburgh. That's why it was "relevant". But either way, it was just a stupid dream.

As for the rest of your post, I think it's spot on. You can pick up tells to judge the relative strength of an opponent's hand, and you can combine that with hand reading ability to determine more precisely which two cards someone is likely to have. From there you can make a guess as to precisely which hand someone has.

I was playing short handed today, raised sixes, got reraised, and the flop came KT6, after he capped the flop, I felt I was up against KK. The turn was a K. Statistically, it was three times as likely he had TT than KK, but I still thought he had KK. He did. Am I psychic? Maybe, if you believe in dreams, but I think it was just a good (easy) read combined with a lucky guess. I played roulette once and lost. So yeah, not psychic.

[jackaaron]

What really sucks is when your mind accidentally "calls" the river card that your opponent needs to give you a bad beat. You think, "If I would have just not thought about the river card I would have won."

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