Exactly bigspenda73!! Reading patterns is what makes the great poker players. The flip side of this having the skills to not show a pattern. Looking for tells is really no where compared to reading patterns.

Sometimes I think the pros stuggle with amatuers is that the amatuers are too dumb to really understand the complexity of pot odds/ patterns/ all the skills. The pros try to read the patterns of how they themselves would bet, verses trying to read the pattern of a donkey.