Being able to read the hands of your opponents is a formidable weapon in poker. Knowing the game opponent, you are able to hand losing your bed, even if they are very strong in absolute terms (lay-down).

You are also able to optimize the way you play your winning hands by opting for a strategy suited to the hand of the opponent. You lose less and win more. To read the hand of an opponent, you first must know your opponent. You must have played against him some time to have noticed the way he plays situations.

It also requires that the adversary is a player of poker relatively correct. Indeed, in order to read his hand, your opponent must follow a certain pattern in his actions. Otherwise, you could not rationally analyze the way to play. We encounter this problem by playing facing beginners or pigeons.

Analyzing a hand in terms of how to play and the nature of the table The ideal would be to have a clear idea of the hand of the opponent early in the coup, in practice, it happens otherwise. Most of the time you put your opponent on a panel hand that will reduce as the round discloses.

One key to analyze the main opponent of poker is to measure the consistency of its actions serve the course of the coup. The conduct of a player after the arrival of a “scary-card” on the table (card thats scary because it complements such a draw) is often significant.

A bluff is likely. But the enemy still shows of force while the scary-card should put on guard. Why has it revived the board became the river when he had the opportunity to see the showdown free?

The inconsistency of its revival over the nature of the river greatly increases the probability of a total bluff.

Sometimes you can not exactly put your opponent on a hand but you can still imagine a set of hands. In such situations, it is interesting to use mathematics to take the decision to follow or not.