Originally Posted by Shauk25

I know cold calling is a sign or limping out of position is a sign but any other signs.

If you'r playing live pay attention to physical tells the guy may display - how does he sit? push chips? talk? stare? A player with a real strong hand usually has plenty of confidence and is calm or may act noticable weak, a weaker hand is leery, suspicious and bluffs come with acts of stength. If your villian is behind you watch how he places his bets and his reaction to yours on the flop.
If your talking internet u'll not have any physical tells to work with but for live or internet you should be figureing out what kind of hands your up against from the pf onward. If your first into a pot w/A-Qo and a pf raise, what kind of hands would you expect to just cold call? AK and pocket pairs 66-JJ for tighter players, add mid suited connectors for some semi-loose players and loose players add Ax, suited and non-suited connectors. AA, KK, QQ and AKs are all raising hands for most types.
This can get quite complicated and that's what books are for but a good start is to ask yourself - how do you play sets? Do your opps play them any different? One tell MAY be the slowplay, If you raise, get a coldcall pf and then bet and get another coldcall on the flop, study the board, What is there that helps a likely coldcall. If you're looking at A-3-7 and didn't get re-raised but got coldcalled you've got to wonder what he's calling you with. A tight player probably wouldn't call with less than A-Q and should have re-raised you or he may be slowplaying pocket 77. You can extrapulate for the semi-loose/loose guys from here - ok?

Originally Posted by Shauk25

This seems to be my biggest hangup, in my game i can read jus about everything else but say i have A/Q i raise, a guy cold calls. Flop comes A/3/7I bet guy reraises more than half the pot. I know cold calling is a sign or limping out of position is a sign but any other signs. Say the flop came a/q/6 and you get top two pair and guy pushes all in could you honesly put him on a set of 6's.

This is my biggest hangup in my game, any tips appreciated.

This exact situation happened to me about a month ago. Had AQo, later in a tourney. I was being very aggressive and had gotten caught stealing recently (didn't have to show my hand, but it was obvious). I made a nice big aggressive raise in the CO and get called by the button. Flop comes AQ5. I make a meager 1/3 pot bet, sure enough he raises all in - I'm thinking he's got a medium A and is just sick and tired of me. I beat him into the pot . . . and he's got 55. Couldn't find another A or Q and I was done for the day.

Can you read someone for a set? In certain situations, sure - like if the board comes 7 2 9 rainbow and there's a lot of action . . . I'm thinking set or overpair if it's a solid player. But there are situations where we can't play scared poker and fear phantom hands . . . we just have to accept we'll run into them some % of the time and pay them off.