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 Is this a tell?, Vincent Merlino, 17. Jan 2003 15:22 | ||
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| I often see players, usually below average players, do something after a hand that has made me very curious as to what causes them to do this. This tell, if it is one, only happens when a hand does not make it to a showdown. Becuase of the fact that I am always trying to get a good basis on how people play I often wonder if this series of events should be read as weakness or strength. Of course I have never found out because I never see the persons hand. Here is what happens: After the player makes a bet and the rest of the field, usually less then two players, folds the player picks up there cards and looks at them, then looks at the board again, then back at the cards , back at the board and finally back at there cards. At this point there is usually a shrug or smile of some sort and then the hand goes into the muck. What causes this need to double-check one's cards when they have won the pot uncontested? | ||
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| Re: Is this a tell?, Ashley Adams, 17. Jan 2003 18:41 | ||
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| This is a classic (at least in my book). It is a weak means strong tell. They had a hand (a pair of Jacks, an Ace-King, a pair of sixes) that they thought was strong enough for a raise. It wasn't a pair of Aces perhaps -- something a little weaker than that. When everyone folds they want to make it look like they are surprised with how their trash and their bet actually won the pot. But they really had a good hand. I'd guage this to be about 75% accurate (which of course means that 25% of the time they WERE really weaker and WERE surprised that their weak hand knocked everyone out). Ashley Adams on 17. Jan 2003 15:22 Vincent Merlino wrote: > I often see players, usually below average players, do something after a hand > that has made me very curious as to what causes them to do this. This tell, if > it is one, only happens when a hand does not make it to a showdown. Becuase of > the fact that I am always trying to get a good basis on how people play I often > wonder if this series of events should be read as weakness or strength. Of > course I have never found out because I never see the persons hand. Here is > what happens: > > After the player makes a bet and the rest of the field, usually less then two > players, folds the player picks up there cards and looks at them, then looks at > the board again, then back at the cards , back at the board and finally back at > there cards. At this point there is usually a shrug or smile of some sort and > then the hand goes into the muck. > > What causes this need to double-check one's cards when they have won the pot > uncontested? | ||
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