Introduction to Hand Reading & Understanding Equity
In today's two new lessons you will learn how to successfully read your opponents' hands and get to know the concept of equity.
Each new lessons contains an article and a video. At the end of each lesson you will find a quiz that allows you to test your knowledge. Feel free to ask questions and discuss the concepts of each lesson in the respective forum threads.
The Five Player Types
In the first lessons about hand reading you will get to know the five most common player types, learn how to identify them and adjust your game accordingly. To the lesson
Successful hand reading allows you to assess your opponent and his range better and better. The first step when reading hands is to categorize your opponents into distinct player types based on their playing styles. By doing this you will get better information about how your opponent plays and how you should adjust your own game to his playing style.
In the next step you will learn how to assign typical preflop ranges to specific player types and what to pay attention to when playing them: the average range. By eliminating certain hands from your opponent's range depending on his actions on each street, you can narrow his range down further as you progress through the hand. This technique is known as the funnel principle.
In the last step you will learn how to effectively analyse showdowns and convert the information you get there into systematically structured notes which will help you to improve your play in future hands.
Equity: Introduction
Equity is a very useful application of the concept of range. The equity of a specific hand shows you how often you are going to win with your hand or range at showdown. In this lesson you will learn which factors influence equity and how you can determine it. To the lesson
Screenshot from "Equity: Introduction". Click the screenshot to watch the video.
