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[QUOTE="IntenseHeat, post: 1998897, member: 92488"]
The best advice I can give is to pay attention! We're all creatures of habit. Most players have tendencies and habits that you can pick up on if you watch them closely. You need to look for patterns and irregularities in those patterns. That's why we sometimes pay to see our opponents cards after we've missed our draw. I want to know what kind of hands you're playing, what you're calling with, what you're raising with, and what you're calling my raises with. 
 
Once I can put you on a range, then I can determine whether or not your story makes sense. Like knowing that a player wouldn't have raised pre-flop with the type of hand that the baby cards that flopped would have hit. Therefore, my medium pair is likely good at this point and I want to try to induce a fold before my opponent catches. 
 
There are different kinds of players out there. So you have to pay attention to individuals and their individual tendencies, then ask yourself if their story makes sense. Why so much? Why so little. It depends on the player. Sometimes a fish doesn't know how to get value from his hand and overbets it, chasing his man away. Sometimes they overbet because they are bluffing and don't want a call. You know all this. The point is to apply it to the individual and their individual style. For example the guy who has been consistently trying to steal my blinds from the hijack position. Except I noticed that weaker his hand, the more he raises. He might make it 3x with Q-8, but with 2-7, he's shoving.
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