Timing is everything, or so they say. Well, I’ve noticed recently that in poker, virtual or physical, that you can tell a lot about your opponents’ hands by just watching the amount of time it takes them to make a bet; and you know what that means – it means that they can tell the same about you.
We’re not robots, we can’t produce results the same every time, according to the same timing pattern no matter if we have a royal flush or a pair of twos; however, what we can do is try to be a little aware of how quickly we bet, how fast our opponent is acting, and from that be able to portray the image that we want as well as read the hands of those who aren’t aware of the importance of this.
Now of course it’s not foolproof, and if your opponent is a weathered player he may be aware of the importance of betting speeds and over compensate the other way to throw you off your tracks, which is why general rules are good but no substitute for intuition or the reading of body language. None-the-less I think that there are general rules that can be identified even if they are not always to be followed.
If someone is very quick...
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