Quote Originally Posted by Element187
you played by the book, of course he had a read on you (that is if he is any good)

by the book poker is a very predictible game, i find it more predictible then fishy weak play.
You're crackin' me up, man. I don't know what "by the book" means to you, but I am basically referring to raising 3xBB with any raisable hand, especially with position. I have no idea how that's predictable. If anything I think it's quite the opposite of predictable. If I raise about once per orbit, always the same amount, and show down all kinds of hands (pocket nines through aces, AK, AQ, AJ, KJ, KQ, even the occasional low suited connectors) when called, how is that predictable? By the book poker, to me, is designed to not be very readable. About the only thing he knows is that my hand is decent. Granted that's a little more predictable than the holdings of a true maniac, but he really doesn't know if I have him beat or not. He can only guess that about 2/3 or 3/4 of the time he'll be ahead of me. If I push all-in over the top of his re-raise, he then has to guess whether I have AK or higher pockets, or maybe even lower pockets... what read exactly is going to give him that information?