Fedor, please show the poker hands not your face, as you are describing a hand. You can always show your face at the start or at the end. In this video, you show what is supposed to be a poker tell too fast, without allowing the viewers to focus on it, and consider your evaluation.
The green juice one was funny and clearly that guy was searching for anything to keep busy but in general the drink one is good and has some additional evidence based in the monopoly study. In a study where they rigged the game in favor of one person without telling either participant who would automatically win to test if the winner would attribute their win to luck or skill (spoiler all winners attributed their victory to personal decision making and not luck 😂) but one interesting side finding was that while winning people would showcase dominant behavior with the researchers leaving a bowl of pretzels out (one pairing even surmised correctly that the bowl put there for some reason but know exactly why). Winners would behave more dominantly throughout the game, making themselves bigger AND consuming the pretzels as both a subconscious primitive form of dominance by consumption (money accumulation is a form of consumption like eating in the wild) where losers would never feel comfortable eating any pretzels while losing. I would guess that consuming food or a drink while in a hand would suggest they are not nervous (nervous people don’t consume calories as their body teeming with stress hormones) whereas the relaxed person is quenching every need with no worries in the world and consumes more resources much like the rich in their daily behavior.
Thanks Fedor! After watching Game of Gold and that sick spot vs Maria, you have a new #1 fan. You analysis on the river was amazing to watch… I was blown away.
in my experience the sip at the bottle is almost always a bluff (i've used it a couple of times)! I think it's an attempt of seeming calm, but also, when someone's under stress his mouth dries and needs inconsciously more watering. Negreanu also says the same in his masterclass. But whatever ;)
Right... the people that know that this means they're comfortable and have the goods, use it as a reverse tell .... acting .... bluffing the bluff lol.
i always hear ppl say “when somebody takes a drink they have the nuts” and tbh ive always thought this was just some scam all the regs silently agreed to spread so that they can get bluffs through recs if they take a sip of water at the table 😅. Bc obviously if it really is such a common “known” tell then all you have to do to get folds is to take a sip of ur drink
@@MrJoosebawkz the reason they say this (from what I've read)... Is cuz if you Jam all in and are comfortable , and know you're gonna win, you're gonna sit back, relax and take a sip of your drink.... ahhhhhh
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. You're only making sense of these "tells" after the fact. Expert players utilise false tells often throughout any given session. The true art is being totally unpredictable. Simple as that.
Honestly, I lean back cooly and drink my wine when I am bluffing! This isn't by design, desperately trying to look relaxed. I've noticed I gotten a lot of folds, maybe they saw this video haha.
Cool vid. I love playing poker but im too “stupid” to figure out what means what so i get wrecked. “Stupid” is an umbrella term for “not enough experience organizing and processing the information available to me at the table on each street”
One of my home game mates lemme know of an involuntary tell. He told me he could tell I was bluffing because my face would get flush. I went to reddit for ideas on how to counter this besides just hiding my face. I was suggested to try changing my thoughts in this spot, so now bluffing instead of screaming in my head "please fold please fold" it's now "please call please call" and for my value jams it's "please fold please fold." It's been working, and now in these spots the adjustments have habitually become looking super uncomfortable with the really good hand and looking calm and confident when bluffing.
One tell that isn't %100 at all but ive noticed if someone takes a good amount of time to bet its more likely they have something good. Bluffs happen faster then a bet I think because u don't have to think about anything at all
It's a fine line WHEN the drinking occurs. I've found that if the person reaches for a drink instantly after putting out the bet it's a super strong tell that they're bluffing. It's one of my favourite tells. Always couple tells together with other tells, body posture etc.
Most often used one for me, they grab their chips. After the turn or river, if they don’t want you to bet they grab their chips as if they’re calling any bet. I always bet out. 90% fold. They want you to check and hope their under pair is good.
Last time I went off a live read, the dude was shaking like a leaf going allin. I had AJo, with a Jack high board. Figured he had an overpaid to go allin to multiple players. He also had AJo but thought it was the super nuts. Stopped paying attention to live tells of people who were inexperienced because they don't actually realize the strength of their hand in a situation most of the time.
Tough to trust your inner voice suspicions if mathematicaly the board declares calling is a long run positive EV. How many pros for folding must be present to counter the math?
If someone is overly concerned with what you're holding, it means that they don't have a premium or made hand, right? Kind of gives you some bluffing leverage?
Poker tell/tip: When your opponent pushes their cards to the dealer when action is on them it is a strong sign that they don’t like their hand. Take advantage of this major weakness in their game!
Nick was Garrett's wingman for that Buzz hand, he interjected himself into the conversation about a pot he wasn't in to ask Buzz if he wants "to put the rest in if we give you the opportunity". Absolute douchebag behavior to table talk about a pot you're not in, let alone teaming up with your friend to illicit information.
I don’t understand the part where he says…If you bet and he shoves into you “he never has a set and you always have the best hand.” Never? Always? How?
I've actually seen an lot of people acting strong and being calm and actually having it. They kind of want to say I told you so after you call like they are being friendly by telling you after they bet they have it. This is particularly true for people drinking. Just wanted to add that because while acting weak and confused is almost always the nuts the opposite is not as true as often at all
1:40 Hate to disagree with someone 100x the poker player I am, but in my experience 2 pair likes to shove. So you can be behind, but I would still call as Fedor recommends.
I’ve always wanted to call someones hand out & than bluff into them. Like when someone block bets into you on the river on a Q-3-5-9-2 board and u know they have Qx weak but on the river you say, “What do you have? QJ or something?? And than blast off luuul
I witnessed/experiences the disappointed/upset all in a few times, and every time the hand was shown it was the nuts. My recent one was a 5-10 at bellagio. It was a 3 bet pot.. I had JJ. Q53 monotone. Ch call. Turn Q ch ch. River J but 1 to flush. He leads for 300, I raise to 800, he acted super annoyed, then jam for 2k more. I tanked little bit and folded JJ face up. He showed QJ
@@ticenits1926well if you know you're only getting raised all in by the mega nuts when you have the 2nd or 3rd nuts then it's easy to confidently fold and proudly show it to hopefully get the confirmation shown back.
@@erichuston1884 or ya know, dont give your opponent free information and instead let him think you could have been bluffing or any other number of theories that might make him hang himself next time
I think I got a reverse tell through at the WSOP Colossus a couple years ago. Turned a set a of jacks and tried to give off an aggressive vibe when I put in my bet, like I was trying to scare off people. I got called by weaker, so I guess it worked.
here's a better video idea, edit together 20 live stream hands (really you'd probably need 1000 to prove anything) where there's a decent amount of physical movement or talking on the river or after all in, then have Fedor watch them with hole cards covered, then have him share what he thinks about what someone's acting or talking means, and then see results. Its easy to sit here looking at the hole cards of someone bluffing and saying "oh see the way he scratches his nose like that, obviously uncomfortable" then in the next hand the guy has the stone nuts and does the exact same thing lmao
I was picking apart tells at my table this weekend. I took advantage of two players. One would go from looking good before flop then looking defeated after flop. With good players I wouldn’t of see it this way but given the situation I felt he wasn’t faking that he missed the flop. So I stole like 5 pots from him. The other guy would try to fake it weak when strong and strong when weak. He hated that I would fold on his good hands and put draw him on his medium hands LOL. That’s all it took for me to take the game was focus on a player on each side of me couple seats away
nobody has ever cared even alittle to hear about "bad beats or "I am so awesome and beter tham otherr because" stories... we really couldn't care any less about your story cupcake
Here are a couple more 1. Staring at your chips, or even looking at them briefly. When someone has a big hand and they're contemplating how much money they stand to gain they need to examine your stack to determine a bet size. So if at any point in time the pot is growing whether you're betting or your opponent is, look at them and see if he's glancing at your chips. 2. The stare down - this is usually a sign of pretty decent strength, but not necessarily the nuts like staring at your stack. The players staring at you because he's intensely focused trying to determine if you'll call. This doesn't necessarily mean that he's bluffing, but it does mean that he's highly invested in the hand and it's usually because he has a strong one himself any just can't help but observe you to see what he thinks you're going to do. You see the irony of the scenario is that you are doing the same thing, you are also invested in the hand and so you're glancing at him is similar to why he would glance at you. This is sometimes applicable in a pure bluff when a player is so fixated on you they just want to get the bad or good news when you ultimately fold or call. When bluffing though they will often quickly look away because making eye contact will immediately create tension and make them nervous thus appearing weak, and they won't want to give off such a tell But I'll also see players do this with big semi-bluffs for the same reason. Typically they won't do this with the absolute nuts because they are no longer concerned with your reaction since they obviously have the hand locked up.
Tells don't make sense alot of times. For me I get sometimes more nervous when I have the nuts and bet then a bluff. Because I want them to call soo bad and am nervous they won't call
I disagree If you've lost big pots with AA recently when you see them again it isn't always comforting, Sometimes you worry ...ahhhh! I'm gonna loose my stack over this and have no choice... especially if you've battled to be up profit and where planning to leave the game soon... so there's a lot more factors and things to consider..
the talking example is kinda bad because if you watch the full video of that hand you see Nick V enticing the action and asking Buzz a lot of questions when hes not in the hand
IDK man.... "acting performance" tell? When I get pocket aces, I feel that struggle with em cause Ive seen em get cracked soooo often, so that internal struggle I show when playing em is very real. Who's that teacher who folded Aces preflop (and won the WPT main event)? That's very much me all those times I got that spidey sense to fold Aces (cause you just dont do that so I dont, and, get cracked for lots of money.
In this example mickey definitely spends less time in the disinterested department than normal to really sell the story. He was making all the right moves but the time spent exhibiting each one was fleeting.
I recall Antonio Esfandiari did a reverse acting tell in a preflop 4/5 bet situation with something like 53s and got his opponent to fold a good hand, truly amazing by Antonio lol
Maybe you're not a winning player then I've been playing 30 years live and you can spot a lot of tells when you play live and like fedor holtz says here most of the time they are correct there is no results oriented blah blah blah people usually do the opposite of what they want you to believe and if you remember that..you can win a lot of extra money
@@SoulfightPoker that's the beautiful thing about playing live maybe you're just not good at reading people but by trying to engage them and watching them when you have a big decision after they bet you can gain a lot of information that you yourself don't give them it's just another edge playing live
You have good content, but the presentation is too fast and disjointed. So, please 1) Speak slower, and be more relax. 2) When you show an example, give it at least 10 or 20 seconds for the viewer to absorb and appreciate your observation. In this particular video, instead of 5, you could have shown 3 examples with better presentation. Hope, this helps. I will subscribe, with the expectation you change your style of delivery.
I hate when players think they got the better hand but they actually dont. You read them correctly but its meaningless because of their stupidity. Its happened to me too many times. Also, I cant stand players who dont think about other players hands. They are in their own lil world and couldnt care less about other hands until the river. I actually prefer players that are skilled because I can read them better. Finally, I cant stand playing with people who prefer being lucky than skilled. I like players who appreciate the strategies and skills of poker. Gambling is the least fun part but thats just me. I still wish people good luck nonetheless.
Complaining about bad players is the sign of a bad player. If you notice they don't value their hand correctly, just drop into TAG/ABC poker and don't try to read them.
I think live tells are more valuable than gto since the average player doesn't study gto and isnt a computer. Human nature, for the most part, especially with recreational and lower experienced players, is just hard to hide. I've played live 95% of all the poker I've played in the last 20 years, and I've picked up on all of these at one time or another, and learned to not give anything away, and also have learned to send false tells. One other tell is the big bet and then look away, literally turn the head and look off somewhere. Sometimes you might get the bet, check, shove river and stare...then maybe some talk. I picked a guy off for my tournamemt life in a circuit event with third pair from this tell and was right, and he got pissed. Also the tell -falsely act overly comfortable talking, smiling, have an exaggerated conversation with someone else looking away, while waiting on the opponent to decide, trying to draw attention away as if they're confident, but it's obviously an act. I like to send false tells when needed, but keep them Suttle...make it look like you're trying to hide a tell, but you're giving a small thing away...on purpose....like sit still for several seconds and then look away at the wall slightly. Put cheek in hand and avoid eye contact. Make it look like your ALMOST good at hiding it , but it's really a false tell.
