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Here are some more tells
that you might see during the course of a
hold'em game.
11. Calling
your bet immediately. *** A
player who calls your bet and has his chips
in the pot almost before you do has a weak
calling hand. He'd rather you hadn't bet.
Since you did, he wants his apparently quick
and easy call to cause you to have second
thoughts about betting into him on the next
round.
12. Reaching
for chips to call your bet before you can
make it. ***1/2 In poker
language, this move means , "of course
I'm going to call your bet! It's such an
easy decision for me that I don't even have
to think about it. If you were betting to
eliminate me, you can save that bet, since
you can see that I'm going to call."
13. Delaying
in calling your bet. **1/2
A player who genuinely couldn't decide
between folding and calling when you bet on
the flop is more likely to fold if he does
call and you bet again on the turn. He
usually will have been looking for a miracle
card, took one shot at it, and is willing to
fold on the turn if he misses ( which will
happen most of the time).
14. Flashing
one hole card. **1/2 A
player who makes sure you
"accidentally" see one of his hole
cards is bluffing. He almost never has what
he wants you to think he does.
15. Behavior
on fabulous-looking flops. ** Whenever
the flop contains a high pair, three
straight flush cards, or even
three-of-a-kind, you should pause a second
before acting on your hand. A player who
threw away a hand with a card that would fit
well with the flop will often let it be
known.
How? Well, he might
curse, moan, pound the table, slap his
forehead, elbow his neighbor, or actually
announce loud what card he folded before the
flop. You have to wait to give him a second
to do one of those things. This is a very
reliable tell since a player not in the hand
has no reason to influence its play or
outcome.
16. Unnecessarily
showing the nuts at the end. *1/2
A player who does this might just be
bragging, but sometimes it's because he
intends to bluff you in the near future and
he wants you to remember that he only plays
the nuts.
17. Coaxing
along an opponent's end decision. *
Let's say a player bets into you, and you're
slowly and reluctantly about to fold. It's
apparent that you're about to exit the hand,
and your opponent says or does something to
help you confirm that you're making the
"right" decision. He's bluffing.
He wants you to hurry up and fold before you
take a second to rethink what you're doing.
18. Showing
visible disappointment. ****
With a very big pot, if a player is on a
draw to the nuts and misses on the end, he
will often let you know about it. Again, the
secret is that you have to wait a second for
him to do it. He might exhale deeply, slump
down in his chair, curse, look sad, turn his
cards face up as a gesture of folding, throw
his cards into the muck out of turn, hit the
table, or tell you what hand he missed.
19. Rabbit
hunting. *** Rabbit hunting is
the term for "Can I see the next card
please?" after the hand is over. It
seems that bad players like to do that and
good players don't.
20. Neat and
conservative players. **1/2 A
person's style of doing one thing is usually
also his style of doing most other things. A
player who dresses and acts conservatively
usually also plays conservatively.
21. Players
in wheelchairs and walkers. ** Players
who are wheelchair bound or otherwise have
physical troubel getting around like to stay
put once they get in the game. They usually
play conservatively but not excellently.
They are generally Tight/Passive
players.
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