Poker tells

Poker tells
By: Ian Johnson

Poker tells are divided on the fake ones and on the real ones. Beginners don’t have control over their emotions and behavior. They send the signals, which reveal if their hand is strong or not. More experienced players can fake it to mislead the opponents. How to recognize if the poker player tries tricks then?

We can suspect that our opponent acts, when he knows he’s being observed and the decision we’re going to make has the meaning to him. The beginner, who will pass his cards doesn’t really know that the opponents look at him recording that his behavior is authentic and he’s folded his cards having no interest in a further play.

What kind of fake tells we can observe then? There is one single rule: weakness means strength and strength means weakness. If the opponent gives us the impression his cards are not that strong, we shouldn’t believe him. He’s just trying to determine us to bet without a fear. The mechanism is simple: who would admit he got bad cards when he indeed got ones.

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Some of the player will demonstrate the weakness having bad cards. Some of the players can read it as the strong hand. Good players don’t use fake tells so often as it has its place between weaker poker players.

We can observe a simulated weakness by a few gestures, such as: long pause before making a raise, sigh, not making direct eye contact, softly tossing the chips in. We have to be careful when our opponent simulates the strength by looking at the board with an interest, watching the betting opponents, long checking his own cards, throwing chips down forcefully into the pot in an effort to discourage others from calling