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Hole Card Confessions: Hand-Reading and Exploitive Play in Hold'em

by Owen Gaines

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A practical guide to reading opponents in hold’em

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A practical guide to reading opponents in hold’em

Owen Gaines frames hold’em as an information contest, concentrating on how players can form and use assumptions about opponents’ likely holdings and strategies. Drawing on his experience analyzing a large volume of hands, the book organizes its instruction around identifying opponent types, recognizing the clues their decisions provide, and turning those observations into exploitive play. More than 100 questions and answers give the material a self-testing component, making the book as much an exercise in applying hand-reading concepts as an explanation of them. The emphasis stays on the decisions and patterns that can reveal what an opponent may be holding.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Hold’em players seeking structured hand-reading practice
  • Poker players interested in opponent tendencies and exploitive decisions
  • Players who like quiz-based strategy study

Themes

Hold’em strategyHand readingOpponent profilingInformation gatheringExploitive play

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Book overview

Includes over 100 quiz questions and answers! You've seen the poker pros on TV announce an opponent's hand as if by magic. Now it's your turn! Owen reveals the secrets to becoming an expert hand-reader. READ HANDS, GET PAID... If poker is a battle for information, what information am I looking for? How do I find it? What do I do with this knowledge once I've found it? I'll answer these questions and more from the experience I have gained over 3 million hands of analyzing opponents of every variety. That experience gained over that number of hands allows me to make incredibly accurate assumptions about the strategies of different opponent types. This knowledge is one of the most valuable things I can offer other players; it puts them on the fast track to becoming hand-reading experts. With this information and some experience, you'll often find your opponent's hole cards are speaking volumes. It's just a matter of tuning your ears to their frequency. Once you're tuned in, you will have obtained a key ingredient needed to become a force at the poker tables.
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