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Any reads or tells you've picked up generally? I've got Mike Caro's book and i've found some of the things in there helpful but some pointless.

Any good reads you guys have? Semi serious thread so don't think i'm looking for that super large edge?

lol.
live reads are funny to me because back when i first started playing (after watching rounders and around the time of moneymaker), i thought that was what the game was all about- if you can read your opponents faces than you can read their hand, and then you can outplay them...
now i think ive taken more of a step back, but there are definitely things you can use and things you can pick up on players.
- timing tells are a lot of the time a dead give away. can't tell you how many times agro grinders have insta donked flush turn cards after calling a raise on the flop only to find out they just turned their marginal top pair into a bluff. most of the time, insta bets and insta calls are pretty weak holding, as most folks usually want to take at least a few seconds to think about how much value they can get when they actually have a hand.
-mouth tension. even some of the better players ive seen will still have their lips tighten uncontrollably in the middle of a hand if they are put to a sweat and they don't have what they are repping.
-hands. in my experience, everyone does slightly different things with their hands, but usually if a player is in the middle of a hand, what they are doing with their hands in comparison to when theyre not involved in a hand is drastically different.

that said, I think caro's main hypothesis of strong is weak and weak is strong is generally true - you just have to find out when they are acting and when they aren't.

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