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Message: [QUOTE="MediaBLITZ, post: 1910397, member: 77190"] Have you not ever been in a hand with a board like 346Tr and your opponent all of a sudden makes a huge bet and you thought to yourself - "Let's see, this guy raised 3x the BB preflop and then checked the flop so there is no way he is holding 57 to have this straight. Must have like AJ." Or take the same board but now the same guy is the BB and there is no raise so he only checked to see the flop. Is it now more possible he could have 57? Well this - in it's crudest form - is ranging. What you are reading is taking that ranging to a level that is more useful and actually going beyon assigning one or two possible hands. After all it is called ranging - and with the core word being RANGE then it needs to go beyond one or two hands. Take for example again the big blind that was limped to and all he has to do is check to see a flop. What is his range? Easy - every freaking card combination in the deck. Once the flop comes and he stays in the hand we get some clues to start to narrow his range (otherwise, we assume, he would have folded). Now go back to the raiser UTG - what is his range? Well it is highly unlikely it is every card combination in the deck, right? So what do we know (and how much do we know) about him to formulate some logical card options for him to take this action with everyone at the table still to act after him? So this ranging has progressions. You are ranging people as the game progresses and cataloging the info in your brain. That way an hour later when UTG limps in you can flash back and know this is the guy who limped with KK in the same position a while back and be on guard. But you are also doing a ranging progression in an individual hand. You start with a fairly wide preflop range on the guy you are up against. Hopefully the flop along with his action/reaction to the flop will help you narrow that range - same with the turn and same with the river. Yeah, you make a lot of assumptions with ranging. Remember, poker is a game of incomplete information. The idea, as the game progresses, is to remove some of those assumptions with concrete historical and logical evidence that supports your thinking. This is why you do not want to ever show your cards when playing with anyone who has a clue. They are waiting for, wanting and needing that information to support or adjust their assumptions about what you are doing. This is why you want to pay attention to the hands you are not involved with. I am always secretly rooting for any hand I am not playing to go all the way to showdown as I get the most information possible about the players this way. [/QUOTE]

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