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Image Success in live poker depends on learning your opponents  using that information to your advantage in later hands.

Online, you're primarily playing against the aforementioned HUD numbers rather than against the opponents.

In the live game, you obviously don't have these numbers for players at the table.

The only help you get is what you can remember from previous sessions. In most cases, though, you'll have never played with - or can't remember - the majority of them.

Some players are easier to profile than others.
In this case, you need to build a profile for each player at the beginning of your session.  Every hand they play (or don't play) needs to be monitored and committed to memory as much as possible.

Exploiting your opponent's game is the ultimate goal of poker. The more information you have on what they're doing, and why they're doing it, the easier time you will have taking his or her money.

And only when you have a strong, accurate profile of your opponent's game can you modify your own game to suit it.


First thing to do is to develop  a general impression of all players at the table and the type of game they're choosing to play.

This is as simple as actively paying attention to hands played and making note of anything that stands out.

Things you want to look for:

1.Player checking the nuts
2.Bluffs, large and small
3.Large calls with marginal hands
4.Tells
5.Willingness to draw
6.Pre-flop aggression
7.General poker awareness and knowledge

Everything a player does or doesn't do is a clue. Do they play too many hands, or are they playing only a few? Are they able to fold a hand? Are they capable of making a bluff?

Once you know all of this information, and more, about your opponents, you will have little trouble knowing how to play them.

If you've decided your opponent is incapable of folding a hand, you no longer have to consider making a bluff against them....


 
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