Almost there with Success and Failure (Long)

[lacky]

I would say the best way to practice reads without actually playing is pick a tourniment you are interested in, preferably one at about your buyin level, as people do play deferent at different levels. Pick a table, or maybe 2, and focus on every hand played. throughout the hand, try to put the players involved on hands. so, maybe it would be, early position limps (wide range) agressive mid position raises (well, probably decent hand, but he raises alot, could be alot of things. folds around to early limper, who reraises pretty big (hmm, he must be pretty strong to play that that way, maybe AKs or big pair) and mid raiser calls for a fair amount of his chips (hmm, he cant have AA or he would raise, so maybe hi pair, not AA, maybe AK) etc, etc.

you will often be wrong, but the more you do it the easier it gets.