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Sorry, but you can't just casually mention 'your opponents likely holdings' like it's trivial to determine. Putting an opponent on a hand is The Skill that top pros have mastered and if anything probably comes from great pattern matching and a strong memory, . But I don't know nor do you because nobody has built a computer that can do it well.

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You speak of these 'top pros' and their hand-reading abilities as if they're an enigma. Hand-reading is mostly a mathematical exercise. It's also infrequently about placing a person on a specific hand but rather a range of hands, with different weights assigned to different potential holdings based on sure, 'pattern matching', understanding player psychology, etc. But it still goes back to basic combinatorial math. Surely a computer can do this better than a human.

Source: Was a 'top pro' for many years online

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