Re: NL - Practicing hand reading
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I'm new to NL. It seems that it will take quite a long time to practice hand reading, since not very many hands get to the showdown, so I can't really confirm the correctness of my reads.
Does anyone else see this as a hurdle?
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Yes, that is a problem.
One possibility is to buy in a bit shorter, say 40 or 50 big blinds. Then more hands will go to showdown, and the game is simmplified a bit. Another tactic is to watch hands in which you are not a participant. Predict what the players have during the hand, and then look up the hands at showdown. Most poker clients let you look up the hands that were folded at showdown, even if they were not shown on the screen.
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