The difference between a good handreader and just an average player...

A warning first, do NOT try this at home.

This is a hand I played yesterday. Villian is a regular who I played over 11k hands with and seems like a decent player. He opens to 2.5bb from every position and his opening range here is around 20%. He is pretty aggro postflop on every street (AF >3 on every street), so he barrels a lot probably.

On to the hand (no special gameflow going on)

***** Hand History for Game 5769693638 ***** (Everest)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, April 23, 12:11:44 ET 2010
Table Bamako2 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: 2cheap ( $80.00 USD )
Seat 2: jatekos ( $364.50 USD ) -> 20/17/4
Seat 3: Mr.Gaston ( $113.10 USD )
Seat 4: BldZwtTrn ( $406.00 USD )
Seat 5: MONAZ ( $410.50 USD )
Seat 6: overedge ( $673.90 USD )
MONAZ posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
overedge posts big blind [$4.00 USD].

Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Qs Kd ]

-> Pre-flop I could call or 3bet here, but as he folds a lot vs 3bets (70%) and 4bets a lot (so doesnt call much here OOP) I decide to call here.

** Dealing down cards **
2cheap folds
jatekos raises [$10.00 USD]
Mr.Gaston folds
BldZwtTrn calls [$10.00 USD]
MONAZ folds
overedge folds

** Dealing Flop ** [ 7h, 2s, 3d ] -> pot=$26

-> This is a really dry flop on which he cbets probably close to 100% (his cbet% is 71%). Offourse I missed this flop completely but as he barrels a lot and probably always keeps barreling on K/Q turns I decide to call (as I would with a set here) and bluff good turns (4 to 9 and probably an A and call K/Q turns).
So the only turns Im definitely folding are 2,3,T,J cause they narrow my range of good value hands a lot instead of improving them.

jatekos bets [$14.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$14.00 USD]

** Dealing Turn ** [ 5c ] -> pot= $54

As told on the flop this is a good turn for my range. A4s/55/22/33/77 are all in my range on this turn so I decide to raise here. I should have raised a litte bit smaller though (to $100), so that I would have had one potsize bet left on the river (this probably gives me a little bit more fold equity on the river).

When I raise here, I'm probably shoving any river except a 2 and 3, although I don't think that makes a lot of difference.

FWIW my bluffing range on this turn is very, very small, because there are just not much (bluff) hands in my range here, besides the random-lets-turn K high-into-a-bluff-one-time hands. Hands like 44/76/88/99 I'm calling way more often here then turning them into a (semi) bluff.

jatekos bets [$38.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$112.00 USD]
jatekos calls [$74.00 USD]

** Dealing River ** [ 5s ] -> pot= $274

Not the best river for me, I'd rather seen a 6 or a 8, but still I pull through with my bluff, cause his hand is complete face up for me as TT-AA and I expected he was good enough to make this fold, but I was wrong.....

jatekos checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$270.00 USD]
jatekos calls [$228.50 USD]
BldZwtTrn wins $41.50 USD
BldZwtTrn shows [Qs, Kd ]
jatekos shows [Qc, Qh ]
jatekos wins $732.00 USD from main pot

Offcourse some will see this as spew, but with a clean image this should just be a very easy fold for him on the turn/river. I'm probably turning up here with a bluff in less then 1 out of 25 times or something....

A hand that looks a lot like mine is this hand below. The only difference is that I believe that the K3s call from rubenrtv is probably a lot better (his hand is good a lot higher % of the time, then the QQ call from villian above....)

That might look strange because and overpair is the nuts, compared to bottom pair, but that's the big difference between a very good handreader and just an average player who only looks at his absolute hand strength, instead of his relative one.

PokerStars Game #43026364990: Hold'em No Limit ($25/$50 USD) - 2010/04/22 15:42:28 CET [2010/04/22 9:42:28 ET]
Table 'Bruwer IV' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: KingBoromir ($5000 in chips)
Seat 2: diBasio ($5100 in chips)
Seat 3: damiii ($5540 in chips)
Seat 4: pistons87 ($5447 in chips)
Seat 5: adtina22 ($5000 in chips)
Seat 6: rubenrtv ($7619 in chips)
rubenrtv: posts small blind $25
KingBoromir: posts big blind $50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
diBasio: folds
damiii: folds
pistons87: folds
adtina22: folds
rubenrtv: raises $125 to $175
KingBoromir: calls $125
*** FLOP *** [ 10s, 3c, 4c ] -> pot= $350
rubenrtv: bets $250
KingBoromir: calls $250
*** TURN *** [ 4s ] -> pot= $850
rubenrtv: bets $625
KingBoromir: raises $1025 to $1650
rubenrtv: calls $1025
*** RIVER *** [ Jh ] -> pot= $4150
rubenrtv: checks
KingBoromir: bets $2925 and is all-in
rubenrtv: calls $2925
*** SHOW DOWN ***
KingBoromir: shows [6d, 5d ] (a pair of Fours)
rubenrtv: shows [Kh , 3h ] (two pair, Fours and Threes)
rubenrtv collected $9997 from pot