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Phil Gordon on Following Patterns New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Gordon describes ways to study your opponent’s behavior. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Gordon: Phil Gordon is a professional poker player, teacher, television analyst, and author. Phil is one of only five people in the world to have won a World Poker Tour event and finish at the final table of the World Series of Poker. Phil is a proud to be a national spokesman and board member for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Phil leads a "No Limits" life ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: Gordon: One of the key skills of a poker player is to recognize your opponent’s betting patterns and then come up with the strategy to exploit it. For instance, some players, you know, if they open the pot for a raise, they will always or nearly always follow that up with a between after, you know, at their earliest opportunity. Other poker players, their pattern might be if they have a good hand they between and if they have a weak hand they check. Others are exactly the opposite, so identifying those patterns obviously gives you a way to exploit those patterns to your advantage. If you know your opponent is weak or you suspect that they’re weak, t

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