Leveling

Quoted from a post I found elsewhere:

1st Level: Your cards
2nd Level: What does your opponent have
3rd Level: What does your opponent think you have
4th Level: What does your opponent think you think he has
5th level: What does your opponent think you think he thinks you have

Etc. Etc.

Edit to add - some people call the my card thinking level 0. You get the idea though I'm sure. Levelling yourself is where you get so far ahead of your op's thinking that you end up going full circle.

So Its basically over analyzing?

Originally Posted by gotigers1234

So Its basically over analyzing?

no. but some people do attempt to go further than is needed with the psychoanalysis thing and end up levelling themselves (which basically means thinking on too high a level for their opponent and making bad plays as a result). basically levelling is getting inside your opponents head so as to take out all the money. it is knowing what they do and why they do it. if you are able to do that, you can crush them.