I was over on Cardplayer.com reading an interview with Apestyles and I thought this was something that was really interesting. I think there is a lot to think about in this short question/answer.

JR: By assuming that everyone else played your game, what kinds of mistakes were you making during your sessions?

JVF: I did my own study on how often the average player folds to reraises preflop. You would think that looser players would fold more often to reraises, simply because they generally have worse hands. But I found out that the two aren’t correlated. It turns out that even though the tighter players are opening with stronger hands, they are also folding more often to three-bets.

Like me when I first started, other players are simply assuming that their opponents play like they do. The tight players raise and assume that when they are reraised, they are beaten by a better hand. The loose players raise and assume that when they are reraised, their opponent is just as full of it as they are. Now, this isn’t concrete for each and every player, but it’s something to think about.

Something to really ponder when you are thinking about how to act and respond to different player types.