Quote Originally Posted by Rondavu
With risk of sounding Freudian, here's how I view reads. Your subconscious brain is capable of knowing things you can't access voluntarily in a conscious state.

This is what intuition is. It's the gut. The gut is your brain letting you know it senses a pattern. It's saying that something is fishy here. The reason only exerience can help you is because your brain needs to compile a huge amount of information from the same source to begin building patterns about it. It then feeds you intuition based on thousand of hours of pattern material from a common source. You can't rush that. It's like watering a plant.
That is great Rondavu. I think it goes to the idea of trusting your initial instinct when you play. How many times have you supressed your initial read or sense on a hand only to find out after it is too late that you were right and talked yourself out of it!