Most players approach hand reading the wrong way. They try to put their opponent on one specific hand, decide that is probably what they have, and play accordingly. The problem is that they are wrong most of the time, and the mistakes add up over thousands of hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The better approach is to think in ranges. Instead of deciding your opponent has ace-king, you build a picture of all the hands they could plausibly hold given how they have played. That range narrows as the hand progresses and more information becomes available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this guide, I want to walk through how Texas Hold’em<\/a> players think at different levels, why range thinking separates the good from the excellent, and the practical steps to start building more accurate ranges at the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n