I've spent this week writing a lot about sizing our own bets, but what about the size of our opponents' bets?
Try to get at least a vague idea of whether or not your opponents' bets are giving anything away about the strength of their hand, particularly when they make an unusual bet. Does a particularly large overbet always signal strength (or alternately, a bluff)? Does a tiny bet mean they're taking a weak stab at the pot? While good opponents will make sure that all of these bets are balanced so that they could mean almost anything, poor opponents may regularly give away their actions by their bet sizes.
But even if they don't, there's one critical rule you should follow: call small bets more often than big ones. In general, big bets are more likely to signal big hands. But even if that's not true for a given opponent, you're getting worse odds on a call when your opponent makes a big bet. This should generally dissuade you from making the kinds of loose calls you might make when an opponent makes an unusually small bet.
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