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I've just concluded another summer full of live poker tournaments in Las Vegas. This is always a time of reflection on the things that went well and the things that can be improved upon.

One thing that went well for me was making use of patterns that I picked up on in my opponents' play and behavior at the table. Here are a few examples of these 'poker patterns' that I looked for and relied upon.

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Frequent Limpers

From hand number one, I start looking for behavioral patterns among the other players at the table, including those related to how they typically play their hands. The first thing that jumps out at me is whether or not a particular player limps. This is a sure sign of preflop passivity and usually a likely indicator of postflop passivity as well, although there are those who limp in preflop and go crazy postflop.

The cool thing is that passive players go to showdown often, so I can get a pretty clear idea of the types of hands with which they like to limp. From this observation, I can deduce which kinds of hands they like to raise. This allows me to play almost perfectly against both ranges going forward.

For example, many players like to limp with small pairs, small suited connectors, and suited wheel aces. I can attack these players with frequent bluffs because these hands do not make good bluff catchers. Instead, they usually miss completely and occasionally make strong value hands like two-pair-plus which are likely to raise my bluffs or weak-pair-plus-draw type hands that can call a few barrels, but not three unless they improve on the river.

When they make draws with no showdown value, these passive players tend just to call down and try to get there instead of rebluffing me with their draws as they should.

This limping range contains only small pairs and small suited cards which makes it a relatively tight range. Players who also limp many unsuited cards are in even worse shape facing my bluffs because these combos rarely make strong value hands.

However, a hand like J-To will often make a better bluff catcher than 5-4s or 5-5. If I am aware that a player's limping range contains more hands like this, then I switch from a bluff-heavy strategy to a value-heavy strategy on the later streets.

Regardless of the makeup of their limping ranges, you can exploit limpers' passivity almost perfectly by carefully recognizing which patterns they fall into.

Early Lookers

Another easily recognized pattern is displayed by players who look at their cards before the action gets to them. This one is extremely reliable because it happens almost every hand and because players generally have their guard down when the action is not on them, thus they are less concerned about information hiding with the bottom of their ranges.

For example, let's say there is an open from early position and I am in middle position. I will look at the players to my left and see how they react to the open before the action gets to them. They will often telegraph the fact that they plan to fold with the bottom of their ranges.

Many of them will literally hold their cards over the muck while they wait for me to act. Occasionally, they will give off tells with the middle and top of their ranges as well, but much less reliably.

Free Showdowns

In almost every small stakes tournament I played, there was usually at least one guy who showed his cards at showdown unnecessarily. Sometimes there were multiple players who did this, and I've even seen cases where a player showed almost every single time. This is a wealth of information that can be used to reverse-engineer a player's overall strategy if you can remember the action that preceded the showdown.

For example, I recently played a tournament at the Wynn in Las Vegas where a player opened for 5 BBs from early position. No one called, but the player unnecessarily showed that he had A-Qo.

A few hands later, this same player limped in from early position. An aggressive player raised and I looked down at A-Js in late position with about 25 BBs in my stack. The first player made the mistake of giving away the information that he likes to raise big with A-Q. I extrapolated that read to include A-K as well.

This information strengthened the relative value of my A-Js in this scenario, especially if the raiser was attacking the limp with a wider range designed to exploit this same information. This led me to make an easy shove with A-Js, thus taking advantage of the free showdown that was given on the previous orbit.

Genuine Verbal and Nonverbal Communication

Another pattern to look for is frequency of genuine verbal and nonverbal communication. Some players like to talk a lot at the table and are generally very happy and outgoing people. If a player like that suddenly stops talking or displaying his usually level of happiness, then you can deduce that something is also different about the way he plans to play.

Sometimes this happens when a player takes a bad beat. If you can recognize that he is tilting from it, you can expect him to play more recklessly than before. For example, a player who complains about being card dead will likely widen his ranges slightly as he gets shorter. If he shows down a hand that seems out of character, he will often say something like 'that is the best hand I've seen all day.' We've all seen this pattern before. If you can recognize and predict it, then you can exploit it.

I included the qualifier 'genuine' because some players are savvy enough to use their words to try and confuse you. I would not put too much stock into the things that this type of player says, but very few people are good at faking nonverbal, emotional responses. A player who is emotionally distressed will have a hard time hiding it and using it as a reverse tell is virtually impossible for most players.

Conclusion

Humans are creatures of habit. And most small stakes poker players are unaware of how their patterns of actions and behavior hurt them at the table.

These are just a few of the patterns I picked up on and exploited while playing this summer. Be on the lookout for these and others the next time you play live poker. Hopefully you will identify something that will help you to gain a reliable edge.

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Vincent Van Patten (born October 17, 1957) is an American actor, former professional tennis player, and the commentator for the World Poker Tour.

Personal life[edit]

Van Patten was born in Bellerose, New York, as the youngest son of actor Dick Van Patten and his wife, Pat (née Poole), a former June Taylor dancer. He is of Dutch, English, and Italian descent.^{[citation needed]} He was first urged into show business at age nine by his father's agent. He appeared in more than thirty commercials, including Colgate toothpaste, before his father was cast in the TV series, Arnie, and moved his family from Long Island to Los Angeles.^{[citation needed]}

From his first marriage to Betsy Russell he has two sons: Richard and Vince. His second marriage, on April 15, 2003, was to The Young and the Restless actress Eileen Davidson; they have one child together.^[1]

Vince is related to several other well-known actors, actresses, and singers through blood and by marriage. Vince is a brother of James and Nels Van Patten, a nephew of Joyce Van Patten and Timothy Van Patten, and a cousin of Talia Balsam.^[1]

Acting[edit]

As a child actor during the 1970s, Van Patten guest-starred in over three dozen classic television series, including Bonanza, The High Chaparral, Medical Center, Adam-12, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Wonder Woman, and a variety of television movies. He also had roles in the films Charley and the Angel (1973) and Chino (1973).^[1] At age 16, he was cast in Apple's Way, a CBS drama series, in which he played the son of an architect who leaves the big city to rear his family in rural and fictional Appleton, Iowa.^[1]

In the fall of 1975, at age 18, he appeared as John Karras in a 12-week CBS drama series Three for the Road. The story line is that of a father and two sons, grief-stricken over the death of their wife and mother, who sell their house, buy a recreational vehicle, and roam throughout the United States.^[2]

Three years later, he co-starred in The Bionic Boy, a two-hour ABC attempted spinoff of the popular Lee Majors vehicle The Six Million Dollar Man, that never went to series. In 1978, he starred in the cult film classic Rock 'n' Roll High School. He starred in several other films in the 1970s and 1980s, including the 1979 action thriller Survival Run (aka Spree), Yesterday (1981) as a Vietnam war veteran, the slasher film Hell Night (1981), Gidget's Summer Reunion (1985), The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987), and Camp Fear (1991). He wrote, produced, and starred in The Break (1995), distributed by Lions Gate with Martin Sheen.^[1] Van Patten co-wrote and produced 7 Days to Vegas (2019), based on a true story, about a bet he made in 1995 that he could walk to Las Vegas, NV from Los Angeles, CA (280 miles), in seven days.^[3]

Tennis[edit]

Van Patten was also a professional tourtennis player who in 1979 was awarded the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Rookie of the Year award. The highlight of his career came in 1981 when he defeated John McEnroe and two other top ten world ranked pros to win the Seiko World Super Tennis tournament in Tokyo. His career high ranking in singles was World No. 26, reached on February 11, 1982.^{[citation needed]}

In singles, Van Patten reached the third round of the US Open twice, in 1982 and 1983, and Wimbledon once, in 1985. In doubles his best Grand Slam event result was reaching the quarter-finals of the French Open in 1981, partnering with Mel Purcell. His highest doubles ranking was World No. 24, reached in September 1986.^{[citation needed]}

Tennis Grand Prix Championship Series finals[edit]

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Poker[edit]

Van Patten learned to play poker from his father, actor Dick Van Patten, at age 14.

In the 1990s, Vince Van Patten put together his own Hollywood home game with famous regulars like Ben Affleck or Tobey Maguire.^[4]

He finished in the money at the 2010 World Series of Poker main event. He finished 481st in a pool of 7,319 entrants and received winnings totaling $27,519. (This amount was awarded to finishers 460th thru 531st.)^[5]

He is a commentator on World Poker Tour since 2003. The first four seasons were broadcast on Travel Channel; seasons five and six on Game Show Network, and, from the seventh through to the current season, it now airs on Fox Sports Networks.^[6]

With Robert J Randisi, he wrote The Picasso Flop, a novel about Vegas poker.^[7]

As of September 2020, Van Patten has $104,383 in live tournament earnings from seven events.^[8]

References[edit]

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1. ^ ^abcdeVincent Van Patten on IMDb
2. ^'Three for the Road'. IMDb. Retrieved March 16, 2011.
3. ^Fessier, Bruce. 'Vince Van Patten accepted a bet to walk from L.A. to Vegas. Then he made a movie about it'. The Desert Sun. Palm Springs.
4. ^'Vincent Van Patten's Life: Biggest Profits, Losses and Net Worth'. Somuchpoker. July 31, 2020. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
5. ^'Event #57: No-Limit Hold'em Championship'. World Series of Poker. November 9, 2010. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
6. ^Profile, pokerlistings.com; accessed March 2, 2016.
7. ^Van Patten, Vince; Randisi, Robert J. (February 21, 2007). The Picasso Flop. Grand Central. ISBN978-0759517073. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
8. ^'Vince van Patten's profile on The Hendon Mob'. The Hendon Mob Poker Database. Retrieved September 21, 2020.

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Bibliography[edit]

• Holmstrom, John (January 1, 1999). The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995 (second ed.). Norwich: Michael Russell. p. 319. ISBN978-0859551786.

External links[edit]

• Vincent Van Patten at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Vincent Van Patten at the International Tennis Federation
• Vincent Van Patten on IMDb
• Van Patten profile, PokerListings.com

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