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Old 07-27-2007, 11:21 PM
drzen drzen is offline
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Default Re: Levels of thinking

This sounds like traditionally how it is worked out, so that you have thinks about own cards, thinks about own cards and opponents', thinks about what opponent thinks about own cards, thinks about what opponent thinks you think he thinks and so on. I'd add another level or levels, because at zero you have this:

Player has QT, board is Q97.

Zero level: I have top pair!
Zero-plus level: I have top pair but it's not the best top pair
Zero-plus-plus: I have top pair but it's not the best, and these draws are possible

and other gradations are possible.

This all precedes your level one.

I often find on this site that players are too willing to draw their categories of players too broadly, and assume too much. They think, this player is loose, so he's bad, so he will do x, y and z. But at least at a lower level, I think that there is a range of skills, some of which a player will have, and some they won't, but there is not necessarily a progression in acquisition of them, because a player might learn a concept that works without knowing why it works.
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