Online Poker tells

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online poker tellsLet’s play amateur psychologist and discuss how to recognize and possibly avoid the most noticeable online poker Tells.To begin with let’s define a poker tell, it’s a reaction, by a Player, to the cards they are holding which may give you an indication of the play the person is about to make. Here is the scenario:

You’re sitting across the table from a player who checks or calls often and rarely ever raises (a calling station), the speed with which this player reacts would indicate to you that they’re using the automatic function inside the poker software. The flop is dealt and as per normal the player calls the big blind in order to stay in the game.

The betting round ends and the turn is dealt, the first player to act bets, the next player calls and play moves on to the calling station. This time however there is a slight hesitation before the player raises.

This is a fairly simple example of a tell, it’s obvious that this player is holding something that was helped by the turn card and is now planning to hook others at the table into increasing the pot.

It may be obvious to you when you watch this example unfold at the poker table but how often have you done this very same thing without thinking? Reliance on the software to play for you can make it difficult to take control of a hand you want to play

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