Re: Some help please?

[kleg_75@yahoo.com]

Thanks for all the info. The videos helped a lot, and I will definitely
get the book. Couple of questions tho. (1) If someone makes a bet, then
looks away, it generally means they are strong. What if they stare at
the board or table. What does that mean? (2) And if someone bets into
you, then stares you down, I`ve heard that means they are weak, but I
have also heard that means they are strong. Any thoughts on this?
Thanks,
Cleg
GrimJack808 wrote:
> The other poster gave a link to the Caro videos, but let me elaborate.
>
> Mike Caro wrote a book many years ago on poker tells. It is a great
> book. It has about (I'm guessing) 100 tells or so in it. He actually
> took photos and wrote a paragraph or so on each one and the situation
> to which it applies. The photos are really out of date and look corny,
> but they are very true, even until today. I listen for the poker
> 'clack' and it has saved me a bunch of money at live games...always a
> sign of a flopped full house.
>
> You can get this book at just about any book store and most larger
> cities have at least one copy in their system, but you will have to
> wait a few months for it to become available on reserve, so go out and
> buy it.
>
> Mr. Caro apparently put together a video series based on the book, and
> even though I haven't seen it, I have heard good things about it. He
> is apparently able to go into more detail on each of the tells. And as
> you can hear his vocal inflections and the like, you can take a good
> deal away from it. But it has nowhere near the time necessary to go
> through all the tells he does in his book.
>
> The Mike Caro Book of Poker Tells is the one book every one should own
> their own copy of. I would put this even ahead of Super System (I or
> II) because it is (as far as I know) the only book of tells on the
> market.
>
> It is also my inderstanding that when this group was starting out, that
> Mike Caro used to post here. I wonder if he still reads this group.
> You might try to use Deja News or Google to try and search some of the
> really old posts for some good info.
>
> Good Luck!!
>
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[GrimJack808]

There is no easy answer to this. In his book, he goes into detail (I
forget the terminolgy he uses) about the player who knows what they are
doing and is trying to be deceptive, and the person who just naturally
does these things.

It is really up to you to determine from prior play how someone plays a
certain hand and what these actions have meant in prior hands and then
apply them to the current hand.

To number 1, it is my experience that when someone stares at the table,
they are trying super hard not to give a tell. I take this as they
have something, but maybe not the nuts.

To number 2, if someone is staring me down, it usually means they are
weak, so generally I call. This is the most obvious ploy. If they
seem like they know what they are doing. Meaning I have seen them lay
down what I figure was a good hand, and make a few bets when I
suspected they were bluffing, I might take this as someone who is
trying to reverse psych me into making a call or raising, so I would
probably proceed with caution.

It really depends upon the surrpunding circumstances. How much is the
bet, what is their chip stack, what is the pot, what was their previous
behavior, and the like. Tells are not 100% guaranteed. But they are
good indicators you can add to your decision making process.

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