How do I put villains on a range if I don’t know how to play poker?
I think this is why most new players have a problem with ranges.
If I cbet on a board with two painted cards and get a call, how do I know to put villain on a FD (among other hands) if I don’t know how to play a hand where I have a FD?
If I open in EP with 99 and get 3bet from the btn, how do I know to include 99+ in villains range if I’ve only ever 3bet with KK+, AK because that’s what I used to think that’s all you 3bet with.
You guys that have been playing for a long time think this is common sense but it’s only common sense if this situation occurs enough to be common to you.
“This opponent likes to c-bet a lot of flops, so he will probably bet with something like all of his sets, all of his missed broadway hands, all of his top pairs, his strongest second pair JJ, and some of the weaker PP hands in his range like 22 and 44 (trying to get us to fold something like 55 or 66 or whatever). So now his range is probably something like {AJ+, KQ, JJ+, 77, 33}.”
You know this because it’s common sense to you but to someone with less experience it’s not so obvious. When I first started playing, I never cbet a flop if I didn't hit it in some way.
I guess what I'm saying is if I don't know how to play poker , how do I determine villian's range based on how he is playing if I myself don't know how to play?
I guess the better you get at playing poker, the better you get at assigning ranges because you know that certain actions or inactions indicate a change in villians range based on previous experience .




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