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An Unbelievably Long Guide to Hand-Reading. An Unbelievably Long Guide to Hand-Reading.

01-03-2007 , 07:56 AM
Awesome. Thanks a lot Pokey!
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01-03-2007 , 08:32 AM
Great post Pokey...as usual. If there is a newsletter, ship it!
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01-03-2007 , 08:38 AM
Pokey, that was awful and uninteresting. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Okay, fine, I'm just jealous of how well you explain the intricacies of this game. Very well done sir, it is very thoughtful of you to write these.
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01-03-2007 , 08:38 AM
Happy Birthday, Medrakil!
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01-03-2007 , 08:41 AM
Pokey for president

This not only helped me to read my opponents but - and probably more importantly - showed me, how easily i can be read.

Thanks for it.
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01-03-2007 , 08:46 AM
Pokey

You seem to have a natural talent for putting across important poker ideas clearly and detailed. I don't know how you manage to repeatedly come out with these long great posts.

FWIW I was playing yesterday and some dude used the earlier analysis on me (thought ut loud in chat) I wonder if he read this first - only problem he didn't understand sample size of 30 hands and assumed I was a PFR maniac
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01-03-2007 , 09:13 AM
Nh pokey... very nice hand!
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01-03-2007 , 09:17 AM
nice post, as usual Pokey, thanks
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01-03-2007 , 09:37 AM
Pokey ftw.

[laudation mode: ENABLED]
I'm a big fan of all your (countless) tl;drs.
This one is officially my new #2 in the "Best of Pokey" collection (although it still might have a run at #1: Stealing).

Thanks for doing all these great posts specifically geared towards helping uNL players.
This is something we can't - and shouldn't - take for granted, since most brilliant players either move to higher stakes sooner rather than later or don't bother to share their insights (probably laziness combined with a lack of expressing themselves effectively being the major culprits).

I've learned many of those points myself by paying generous amounts of tuition BBs to the University of Online Poker, but there are a few important blank spots you've filled in with that post.

Thanks again for doing this.
[laudation mode: DISABLED]
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01-03-2007 , 10:38 AM
Y r u not writing a book?
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01-03-2007 , 10:40 AM
This is long to you really expect us to read this?
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01-03-2007 , 11:03 AM
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This is long to you really expect us to read this?
Go away
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01-03-2007 , 11:24 AM
As usually, Pokey rules!!!
Thanks!
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01-03-2007 , 11:26 AM
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This is long to you really expect us to read this?
I hope you don't, and I look forward to playing against you.

Great post, Pokey. Thanks.
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01-03-2007 , 12:10 PM
Great post, thanks.
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01-03-2007 , 01:13 PM
Hand reading is by far the biggest hole in my game. Thanks for this.
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01-03-2007 , 01:16 PM
Thanks for the post Pokey, insight from good players is always very valuable. I will surely be rereading this!
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01-03-2007 , 02:35 PM
nh
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01-03-2007 , 05:03 PM
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Less common at uNL, but increasingly common at higher levels (and deadly-dangerous when they do it right) is the LP/TA: this player is a total calling station idiot preflop. You'll often see preflop numbers of 75/11 or 68/6 for these folks. Don't fall for it! It's a ruse. These folks are splashing around in as many pots as they can as cheaply as they can, and then postflop they play POKER. They'll be folding a tremendous fraction of the time on the flop, escaping for 1 BB, but when they hit it will be with something sneaky-as-hell and solid-solid-solid. They then go into aggro mode, betting incredibly hard and relying on unobservant TAGs to call them down lighter because "hey, this idiot is 72/7, my TP3K dominates his range." They stack more TAGs than you and I could ever hope to, because their image gets them mad phat postflop action.

Interesting. Does anyone here play like this successfully?
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01-03-2007 , 05:04 PM
golden
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01-03-2007 , 06:50 PM
sick post. i agree with the above poster. u should put all these together and make it a book. (only dont release it cuz that will cost me sosososososo much money long term "
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01-03-2007 , 06:55 PM
nice post

dont forget medium strength hands exercising pot control if you see a bet-check-bet line (usually from better players)
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01-03-2007 , 07:08 PM
Very nice post. Attention uNL mods, sticky this post. Holla.
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01-03-2007 , 08:16 PM
Great post! thanks!
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01-03-2007 , 08:40 PM
good post pokey
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