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Message: [QUOTE="baudib1, post: 1831083, member: 47606"] It's a lot harder without stats because with stats you can assess someone's range pretty much instantly. It's really about profiling, sort of like detective work, adding pieces to the puzzle. Players can be unique and play different parts of their range unexpectedly, for instance, you may find someone who's mostly a nit but overvalues small suited Aces. But mostly people fall into predictable patterns at low limits: Loose passives: people who limp a lot and don't raise, never fold their blinds, play bad hands out of position, rarely fold the flop with any draw, never raise without the nuts. Their range will be huge on every street, the good thing is you can just valuebet the crap out of them. Go for 3 streets with 2nd pair and see them call down with A-high/bottom pair. uber nits: they play like 10/4 and raise JJ+/AK and nothing else, they don't steal, sometimes they call with pocket pairs or AQ. When they limp-call or call from the blinds, they have pocket pairs, so when they start donking pot or check-raising you, they have sets. etc. Extremes like this you can figure out without stats. For instance, if I see 2 hands where a guy open-folds then button and then the next hand, it folds to him in the SB and he gives the BB a walk, I will guess he's a nit even with this lolable sample size. But building information has to start somewhere, acting like you have none after witnessing that is pretty indefensible. It's really important if you don't have stats to pay attention to all showdown hands and also pay attention when not in the hand to try to put them on ranges and see how the hand plays out. Even if there is no showdown you can get a lot of information, i.e. they called 2 pot-sized bets on flop and turn on drawy board and then c/f for 1/2 pot on blank river -- you can pretty much guess they had a draw. [/QUOTE]

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