I came to think of these:

- Villains range (considering position and stacksize)
- My percieved range
- Natural bluffs (mine and villains)
- What solvers would do
- Blockers
- Villains leaks
- Pot odds
- History with villain
- ICM (mtts)

Im pretty sure i forgot some important ones. What do you think?

Where's the waitress?

What their range is and what I know about their playing tendencies. If you're listing nine things you're overthinking it

When is this hand going to be over; I really need to piss.

I think you listed some good ones. I would add our equity versus villain's range and our current table image.

"His fold-to-4bet range has to be capped at JJ. I can 4-bet bluff profitably with TT here."

Lmao no. It's more like"damn, that waitress has nice tits. When is this donkey going to fold his hand? I need this bluff to go through so I can pay for the hooker tonight."

Villains range, my history with villain and my table image. I also plan 1-2 steps ahead EVERY HAND. So I already know what my reaction is gonna be to villains next action before I even take action.


Cheers!!!

Time of day

When was the last time I won a hand

What I ate for lunch earlier

What did my opponent eat?

What are my dinner plans?

Striped or solid shirt

If villain has a striped shirt are they horizontal or vertical

Long pants or shorts?


All that comes together like a puzzle and I look my opponent in the eye and put him on a hand.

Ditka.....Ditka....Ditka

Da bulls.

A while ago I was dealing to a regular in a tournament. He gets into a hand with this woman. Each street he takes an abnormally long time. It gets to the river, she goes all in, he again thinks for a very long time. Finally calls, she turns over a mediocre hand, he turns over a monster. Not the nuts, but a hand that he was easily getting it all in without much thought. He wins the hand. I look at him funny trying to figure out what he was doing taking so long.

He sees me looking at him and smiles.

So after I get tapped out and I am heading to the next table I stop and ask him what he was doing.

He says "Did you see the tits on her?". "All I kept thinking was that I knew I was going to bust her so I wanted to make sure I got a good last look at them before she left."

Sexist, misogynistic, and wrong? Yes. Of course.

But undoubtedly you need to add "tits" to the list.

Not only when I'm in a hand, I think about tits all the time!

Miley Cyrus naked
Taylor Swift naked
And so on…

I want my opponent to think I'm pondering a call. But all I'm really thinking about is Vegas and the f**king Mirage.

But seriously...

I try to focus on the hand and think about the most important stuff mentioned in the OP. Not necessarily all of it, but the stuff that matters most in the moment. Like, blockers and natural bluffs don't really matter as much when I have the nuts and some fish is betting into me or check-calling me the whole way. He's not thinking about my range, or his, and he's probably never heard of blockers.

When I have the nuts or close to it, I'm trying to figure out the most effective way to get the most money possible into the pot. When I'm bluffing, I'm trying to figure out if my line is credible, and how much I need to bet to accomplish my goal.

In most of the low stakes games I play, there might be 1 or 2 other players at the table who are thinking about ranges, game theory, blockers, natural bluffs, etc. Most of the player pool are playing pretty ABC poker - betting/raising with their good hands, checking/folding their garbage, bluffing too much or not enough, etc.

The description of your thoughts when you sit at the poker table makes me think that this guy must be a super pro, or that I'm a complete lame at this game. The only thoughts that come to me during the game are whether I raised too much! That's why I play mostly online, so that my neighbors don't see me blushing at the bets.

Think? Why would I think when I can just click buttons and hope for the best?

This is exactly what I meant. When you play online, it's very difficult to rely on your own mathematical or strategic abilities. Because, for example, I'm not at all sure that the computer is dealt from the same deck))) In online poker on any site, only psychological stability and passion for the game can affect the outcome!

Vs a reg:
1. What would happen here at equilibrium?
2. What is my hypothesis for how my opponent is currently deviating from my best guess at equilibrium, or how will they deviate later in the hand?
3. Based on their deviation, what hands from the original equilibrium should play differently?

Vs a fish:
I've looked at their bet sizes, showdowns, and timing. So based on those things, do I have any reason to assume their average hand class is different than what most fish have here? If not, just play my fish strategy like a monkey.

Speaking of boobs. I never thought this could happen to me online. Once I went to a game on a new website https://ggbetph.net/en/casino/. I often do this when I'm down on my luck. And there was a chick who posted an avatar with huge tits... I couldn't think of anything for the rest of the evening until I checked her Instagram. By the way, I made a few bucks there. So boobs are good luck!

This is a good question and it’s sad 90% of the replies is trolling (and not very funny or original at that)

A good framework from approaching situations is probably the most important thing in poker. Some individual style comes into play here. Here’s how I approach it:

For starters let’s distinguish between thinking during the hand and away from the tables. During the hand I don’t really think because I try to be relaxed and enter flow state as much as possible. You do not really have the time to think through spots.

What I think during a hand are actually trained key pointers based on my own tendencies: principles to keep my aggression in check, principles for choosing a line when faced with uncertainty. For example: if I don’t know the best option, which line is least likely to be a substantial mistake?

Away from the tables you want to dive much deeper. Many of the factors you listed. I like to train gto in a free manner. Take every spot you’re unsure about and try first to construct the gto range. Then check it up in solver. Where am I wrong? Is that because of an error in my understanding of the spot or is it a subconscious adjustment to population/player tendencies? Don’t focus on trying to get every combo or precise blocker right, use the solver study most effectively by figuring out what your thinking errors are.

Slow it down and work on just a single solution. Pick a combo in your range and think of what the best line for that combo is versus various parts of your opponents range. Then consider various player profiles, how those factors would differ and what adjustments you would make. Consider how certain reads would weigh opponent to certain parts of his range and consider the adjustments.

Think far ahead with your combo. Don’t think cbet vs check, think specifically for example: on average vs all parts of opponent range this kind of hands fits best in a check/check/bet line.

Do this for 2-4hfs every day to the point where it becomes subconscious thinking. Now you can start to factor in extra adjustments on top, more reads, psychology, game flow.

• What my hole cards are, including suits (I don't like to look back during the hand, so I double-check my cards preflop and memorize them).
• What the flop, turn, and river are.
• My position in relation to the button.
• How many players are in the hand at every street, and whether any of them are all in or close to it.
• If I have a pair or better, what draws I could be up against, including overcards.
• If I'm drawing myself, how many outs I have to make my hand (no point knowing pot odds if I don't know the odds of making my hand).
• What backdoor draws I might have (e.g., almost every time I flop a gut-shot straight draw, I also have outs to make it a double-gutter or open-ended straight draw, and I may have a backdoor flush draw as well).
• How my opponents visibly react to the flop, turn, and river (i.e., tells).
• What my opponents say about their hand strength and whether I believe them (table talk).
• What tells or information I might be giving off myself, whether it be from facial expressions, hand movements, or things I say during the hand.
• If it's a high-low split game, the likelihood that I can scoop or the likelihood that I'm getting quartered.