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Originally Posted by gay_on_tse
I often have zero reads on my opponents. I guess I am just taking wild guesses like a monkey throwing darts?
Actually I would guess that you are going by what seems to be standard to you in a given spot. I play a lot of micro PLO on anon tables at ignition, and, especially after first sitting down, I usually don't have a read either. But there are definitely tendencies that you can spot that the typical player in a game will exhibit.
A draw completes and they lead into you on the river after cc'ing the other streets? They are rarely bluffing.
Big c/r on the flop when no straight or flush is there yet? The vast majority of the time this will be a set. Most players at this level seem to prefer check-calling their draws, even the very big ones.
And all that kind of thing. Obviously there is no genius in any of those thoughts, it's pretty straightforward stuff. And in most cases when I get involved in a large pot, I have a powerful enough hand to not need to worry about it too much.
But my main point was that, in the long run, the closer decisions are going to be what really determines where we end up on the winner/loser spectrum, and we have to do anything and everything we can to use information to inform these decisions and not just make wild guesses.