What about players should you observe when entering new table?

What do you observe about your opponents when you have just entered a table where you have no information about your opponents?

i immediately ck to see their starting hands.

Poker is a social game, or at least that's how I view it. So I want to sit down at a table where the players seems happy to be there. Given the choice I'll leave the grumpy players to others and wait till I can get a happy table.

I don’t know if you are talking about live or online table, but the first thing I try to see is the style of play of my opponents, who is aggressive, tight and who is the fish.

You should observe all of them all, you should sharkscope all of them, and you should color code all of them. If you do this its easier for you every game and it should help you game select in the future.

Margo17 said:

What do you observe about your opponents when you have just entered a table where you have no information about your opponents?

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Hi
I look at what ranges my opponents play, how they use their table position and what their betting strategy is. These are probably the main things that I always pay attention to.

I observe the betting pattern, aggressiveness and what range of hands the opponent usually plays...

How much crazy they play and if I can determine whether some of them are suspected bots or coluders. If I see such '"players'' I might not play at all , but if it's a freeroll or very low buy in , then I will also try to play not straight poker . ATC and ''shove festival'' strategy is on the menu for such "players"

First of all, against unknown opponents you need to pay attention to the number of chips the players have and, of course, their positions at the table!!!

Online, I don't pay much attention, live, I want to notice as much information as possible, remembering that sometimes the luck factor is predominant

Margo17 said:

What do you observe about your opponents when you have just entered a table where you have no information about your opponents?

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First of all, you have to be careful of those with a large pile of chips, they are the first to cause problems. Then I would proceed as normal avoiding spills until I had an idea of what I was dealing with at the table...

I observe whether he/she is calm or nervous.

Well chip stacks of course, who limps, who folds, who cbets.... general playing style😎

As others have said, there is obviously a big difference between live poker and online poker, since in live poker you can get information from peoples physical apperance, their table talk and the way, they conduct themselfes on the table. I know nothing about this, since I am an online player, and I will assume, that so are you. So from now on I will only focus on online poker.

I will also assume, you are fairly new to poker, because otherwise you would hardly ask a question like this in "learning poker". And the main thing, I will say, is, that its far more important for you to work of your baseline or default strategy than to work on observing your opponents. We have all seen TV-poker hands, where Tow Dwan pull off some sick bluff, or Daniel Negreanu make a huge soul read.

But the vast majority of the time the best strategy in poker is to play almost like, we are a robot rather than trying to guess, what our opponent might be doing. Some call this GTO, others call it ABC or TAG. Some part of this is knowing our preflop ranges, which boards to C-bet more or less, when to continue on the turn, and how to defend somewhat correctly against aggression.

So if everyone is an unknown, because a new tournament just began, then we just settle in and focus on playing our hands in a straight forward way and stay out of truble. And only when the blinds have gone up, and perhaps we have more information as well, do we start to make more adjustments and fight more for the blinds and antes. Its an old truth, that you can lose a tournament in the early game, but you can not win it.

But if you are going to pay attention to, what your opponents are doing, then the most important thing is to look for unusual action like very large or very small bets. If for instance someone straight out open to 5BB in an online game, where the normal sizing is 2-3BB, it is usefull to know, if this was their first time doing it, or if they do it all the time. If its the first time, we can just fold anything but very strong hands, but if they do it all the time, we should start widering our range, because they likely dont always have a premium hand.

Finally I will say, that the most valuable way to observe your opponents online is by using a tracker / HUD, if the site allow it. In that way you will often find, that you actually do have information about some of the opponents, because you have played with them before. Notes and tags are also usefull for having such a "memory" from game to game.

Good morning
I will be careful of my opponents' reactions as usual, and I will only play strong hands. I will not bet all my chips unless I am the max on the board, so that I can get an idea of how each opponent plays and the style and timing of the skills he uses to defend his hand or catch a fish.

First I go to their data and label them with colors and make some comments about their game, now adapt to their game and try to be exploitative in their game's weaknesses.

You shouldn't be afraid of something just because you don't have experience in games of this format. Just raise most of your buttons and then add a little postflop. If after ten hands a fish doesn’t join you, then you can sit out or simply leave the table.Go after recreational players. You can also make yourself a list of your “favorite” fish and look for them every time before you start a session.

Margo17 said:

What do you observe about your opponents when you have just entered a table where you have no information about your opponents?

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the VPIP, PRF and 3bet

Margo17 said:

What do you observe about your opponents when you have just entered a table where you have no information about your opponents?

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I watch how the players play, how they bet, how they use their position, and of course, if I can, I look at who is playing with what hands. I only play online, so I try to use the information that is available to me and I also make sure to take notes.

If they're playing aggressively and all over the place, I click on where they're from....

Cooking said:

I don’t know if you are talking about live or online table, but the first thing I try to see is the style of play of my opponents, who is aggressive, tight and who is the fish.

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i label using 3 colors depending on quality of play
red
blue
yellow

First of all i observe the stacks size of my opponents, secondly their style of play.

The stack of chips is the first thing I look at, then I notice how many times it comes into play and how aggressive it is.

first i look to see how fast they play and if its consistent, then, size of bets , raises, etc. gives me a clear picture what i'm dealing with.

Roobz75 said:

If they're playing aggressively and all over the place, I click on where they're from....

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do you find that certain countries produce a certain "type" of player?