Reading Players / Better Patterns

[FifthAndRiver]

I need some asstance with reading players and identifying betting patters. Also how to exploit what I see. I particulary play online low No-Limit Hold'em tournaments. Can anyone offer me some advise and/or good books.

Thanks in advance
F&R

[PantsOnFire]

For NL holdem tournaments I highly recommend Dan Harrington's three Volumes.

[Elandriel]

Tournament poker by Sklansky

[Yads]

Play one table, pay attention. That's all there is to it.

[retleftolc]

HoH 1 2 and 3

Ret

[Ratamahatta]

There is a post from SSNL forum about how to develope better pattern recognition. No one knows if it works, but it's a very interesting theory.

Link.

[jdog1999]

I think it really has to experience. It's that feeling of "was that 1 sec or 2 secs" that they took to bet and what that might mean. I think you literally have to play 1000s of hours before you can "feel" the patterns. And you start to trust you instincts.

[kcbadbeat]

I've noticed that if you just sit and watch when you are not involved in a hand (not be distracted by TV, reading or whatever) and watch how they bet and what cards they show, it becomes easy on the lower level tournaments after a while.

[SpewingChips]

I'm guessing that "interface issues" will make it hard to get great information out of timing. There are a ton of things that can be happening around the remote player or even simply mousing errors or so forth... so there could be a lot of "noise" giving you false clues.

For example, when I play on my laptop, the darned touch pad gets finicky and sometimes I have to spend a second or two getting the mouse "on" the button so I can push it.