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“Mike Caro's "Book of Tells" covers these and many more. It's old so lots of funny pictures in it. There is a video that I have also... maybe I should post part of it to youtube. Many of his points are considerably more subtle than what's given in this short video.”

Mike Caro's "Book of Tells" covers these and many more. It's old so lots of funny pictures in it. There is a video that I have also... maybe I should post part of it to youtube. Many of his points are considerably more subtle than what's given in this short video.

One funny thing about studying tells is that, once you know what a certain physical tell looks like, what should *you* personally do? Well... tells exist because they WORK against weak players. So against weak players you can generally act as they do. Acting weak means you have a strong hand in general, so, if you have a strong hand you should act weak. This seems kind of counter intuitive, but it makes good sense. If your opponent is NOT skilled in reading tells, then you should not be reversing tells.

A good example of this is when you have a very good hand and you wish for your opponent to call on the end. The right thing to do is to appear nervous and agitated, but subtly so. I tap my fingers on the cards, maybe jiggle my knees up and down, etc. This is because you, as a reader of tells, KNOW that when someone is agitated they have a big hand. However, to the amateur, such nervousness is almost universally attributed to someone who is bluffing, when the opposite is usually true (bluffers tend to try to remain still and calm, people with big hands actually get nervous).

I really, really, miss having good venues to play live since I moved to Austin.