See Mucked Cards with PokerTableStats

You could learn a lot about your opponents on the poker felts if you could see what cards they had after the hand is over.  Did you know this is not only possible, but that also PokerTableStats, one of the leading in-game online poker odds calculators in the world, can help you do so?
 
The mucked card functionality within PokerTableStats won't reveal all of your opponent's hands; however, the software will reveal any hand that your opponent mucks at showdown.  While it would be great to see every hand of your opponents, this is not information that the online poker sites provide, which is why PokerTableStats can't give you a sneak peak in all cases.
 
It's helpful to know what cards your opponents had so that you can range them in future instances.  If a player is always mucking quality hands, you can assign them a much tighter range than opponents who often show down with weak hands.
 
PokerTableStats elaborated on this in a newsletter provided to their customers by breaking down opponents into three main categories: loose-aggressive (LAG), tight-aggressive (TAG), and loose-aggressive passive (LAP).  Often, you should be able to determine which type of player your opponent is by looking at the stats displayed in the PokerTableStats HUD.

While this is definitely a good way to classify your opponents, a player you may have classified as TAG may actually wind up being aggressive at times with weaker hands.  Since with PokerTableStats you are now able to see what hands your opponents are mucking, you can see if they have a tendency to bet even when the board doesn't help their hand.
 
Conversely, an opponent you may have classified as LAG could be on a heater and not seeing a flop with weaker hands.  If you are constantly seeing your opponents muck premium hands, you can take this into account when deciding what type of player they may be along with the information you have in your HUD.
 
Many poker players say that online and live poker have many similarities.  Usually, the differences are that you can get live reads and tells from your opponent and have more time to process information with the slower type of play you find live.  Likewise, online, you have other ways to understand what type of opponents you are up against, primarily with the use of a HUD.

Another main difference is that in live play, when a player wants to hide his cards that just went into the muck, he usually has that option.  Online, a player has no choice, as poker sites disclose in the hand history files what hands people mucked.
 
Knowledge is power, so why not check out PokerTableStats to see how the mucked hand feature, along with a powerful in-game poker odds calculator and HUD, can help your game?

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