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It’s widely known but many pros consider it to be of low importance compared with “hand reading”, which is more about putting someone in a play-style bucket bas
by danenania 3y ago
It’s widely known but many pros consider it to be of low importance compared with “hand reading”, which is more about putting someone in a play-style bucket based on the hands you observe and then deducing what hand range they are likely to hold from their actions in the hand up to that point. Physical tells are typically considered as unreliable compared to this unless they are really obvious. Amateurs tend to overestimate the importance of tells vs. hand reading.
- spease 3y agoSo it’s perhaps more like there’s a local minimum before you reach the global maximum.
- danenania 3y agoRight. If you're already really good at hand reading, you might get some extra edge in working to improve your physical reads, but otherwise looking for subtle tells will probably just make you play even worse. In elite games, you would assume everyone is an expert at hand reading, so it makes sense that physical reads would become more important.