I get so excited that my hands start to shake when I am dealt pocket aces in live poker. To avoid giving anything away, I fold them preflop half of the time, so that observant opponents will think my shaking is a mix of strong and weak hands.
@@AlexDuvall I'd love to have Negreanu watch me toss pocket aces into the muck preflop and see if he can read me. Folding aces preflop makes me unreadable.
Hand shaking is actually a less usual tell you barely see it but when people have big hands lol a full house and stuff and they betting lots of chips they will start to shake a bit uncontrollably because they excited not because they nervous
My guess for what Daniel saw: it was a combination of her pausing, focusing on something she seemingly liked (a lot), disengaging from the friendly banter, letting her smile retreat somewhat quickly, then checking BEFORE looking at his next move. All subtle to the novice, but obvious flags to a seasoned pro.
My advice to anyone that is trying to avoid giving live tells, take your time with every decision you make, and pick a spot on table the focus your eyes. Avoid looking at other players until you get more comfortable playing with strangers. You won't be the life of the party but you'll be un-readable to recs and most regs
I find it easily to give reverse tells. The brain cant help but react giving off tells so to try to turn that off is difficult. I give reverse tells n even the same tells when im bluffing n when i got it. Dnegs is right tho. Mosyt recs wont even notice. Hell most recs wont even look at u lmao.
this is very good. also try to keep the time per decision point close, timing tells are given off often even by otherwise good players. i don't mean take a LONG time on every decision, but say 5-10 seconds or something like that. or whatever it is, keep it similar all the time.
@@dumitavi1 yeah i just don't get it , why would danny be that upset, he's walking around with millions of dollars why would he care if he loses some. acting like a diaper baby.
some people have exploitable live tells. A guy I used to play with used to double clutch his cards when on a draw. The flop was low, so I knew he had low cards but didn't hit. I called him down with Qhigh -- poor guy lost his mind after betting all 3 streets.
What I noticed is she thinks a lot when she has a decision to make, and not when she doesn’t, making it easier to infer what she has. It takes some time to learn to do things in the same rhythm regardless of whether the decision is easy or difficult.
Well tells will give away the strength of your opponents cards and although poker players try and hide tells they don’t know their giving a lot of info when I used to play a lot of poker I would notice people doing stuff that would let me get a at from hands pretty easily
I only just watched that long (8hrs) ~2 year old vid over a few days last month. Damn but the Poker Brat was in classic form. What a jackhole that "man" can be! 😛
I like to see if their eyes focus and hone in on the flop or if they just have a blank uninterested stare. Can sometimes tell from that if they connected to the flop at all or not.
the hand example at just before the 8 minute mark isn't a good spot to say he'll call since she looked weak, negreanu's got the 2nd best hand possible, heads up, when she entered the river with around an SPR of 1 (meaning he'd NEVER fold his hand regardless of her "tells" in this example).
Daniel has always been one of my favorite game players, not just poker. He's authentically interested in the human condition, his own, others, the world. His advice about allowing your feelings some space to be felt is a kind of wisdom that comes with age and is very hard to teach.
Love this. It’s funny you say about the chip gaze. I have always picked up on this, I usually say there was a hesitation. Wanting to bet out but don’t. Didn’t realise people do this automatically. It’s made me fold and I have known in which streets someone was thinking of betting or raising. I can tell even when someone is sitting right next to me.
- you dont win with your hand - you win by knowingf the other's hand Best case is the QQQQ vs 9999 match, where the 9999 guy was so into his own hand he considered himself a winner and didn't spend a second to think of the other guy.
interesting, i didn´t see her glance at the chips, but her face right afterwards was telling me like "i have something supercool, but i can´t talk about right now, but you´ll see later"
For the fake smiles, you don't need to look at eyes. In fact, when I learned to fake smile (I rarely do it any more, I hate the social convention, actually) I instinctively learned to create those wrinkles. Just look at the smile itself. If a smile is bigger, it's usually the real smile. This is because when you are fake smiling, you subconciously "try not to overdo it." While if you are ACTUALLY smiling, that thought never crosses your mind. There are obviously exceptions, like sleazy car salesman, that go WAY TOO BIG. But, generally, when someone fakes a smile they "try not to make it TOO BIG because they are concious of it. When you really smile, it's unconcious, and you smile much larger. Something I noticed when I had to teach myself to fake smile when I was young. It works like 95% of the time. There is also the "twinkle" in someone's eyes and face. It's subconcious when you are happy.
i disagree with not putting alot of effort into fake tells. I have been playing poker for 10 years over the board and i can tell you, when you are around ppl that know you and the tendencies you might have, it is absolutely invaluable. HOWEVER, playing against ppl that do not know you, it might be better to simply play legit. The reason why is because they could interpret your gimmicks in a different manner than what you think it will make them see. Against ppl that know you: invest in fakes agianst randoms: focus up and play good fundamental poker
The best ‘fake tell’ imho is feigned impatience. Assuming it works at all, it’s only something you would use when you’ve got ‘da nuts’ and you’re hoping for a call. The idea is that assuming you’ve been calm & collected all game, a smart player might see an impatient sigh + eyeroll and think you’re starting to crack. A winning hand isn’t worried, it’s too busy praying the opponent will call. Or they’re an oblivious player and maybe being impatient pressures them into rushing their decision. Of course, the most likely outcome is still neither of those. Most players are too busy basing their decision on their own personal feelings about risk. They won’t even think yo base a decision on _your_ feelings
If you wanna beat poker pros heads up, bully the pot no matter what you have. Pretend you have infinite chips to play with. Steal every blind and only fold if your pushed all in and don’t have it.
actually when players reach for chips it means they have nothing. they dont want you to bet. i dont know how many times ive called a persons hand....the key is following your read and not call when you know they have you beat. sometimes we call to see if we were right. i learned about tells from the mad genius of poker, mike caro btw.
I wonder if you discipline yourself to do the exact same thing on every hand. For example, always look at your chips. Make it almost a ritual what you do as every hand is played and do it the same way every single time. That way it isn't exactly a fake tell, it is just a consistent routine that doesn't give any actual information.
I think the tell without reading chat or finishing the video yet. She was smiling when the cards laid down, and then closes her mouth still smiling with closed mouth
The scariest player for someone like Negreanu is someone who doesn't know what they're doing, but can pretend they do. This will lead to Negreanu getting false-signals as to what's happening that he could lose a lot of money over.
Theres an epic video back in Live at the Bike where an opponent makes a move on garrett, and leaves a "crumb for busfare" and Garrett sniffs it out Anyone seen it? maybe it's not even Garrett hahaha
These things arent revolutionary. The "looking at chips" tell was in Caro's Book of Tells. The mouth tells is why Phil Helmuth (who is great at reading tells) holds his hands over his mouth while in a hand. Not learning about live tells is DEFINITELY a leak.
All you have to do is look at your chips on every flop regardless of what your hand is. No one can read someone that does the exact same thing 100% of the time.
Smiles are very easy to detect because when we smile genuinely our whole face including our eyes smiles with us, not just our mouth. The fake smile is something many actors are very bad at
If you want to avoid tells, play without tendencies. Most people have this “book” mentality so it’s easier to spot tells. If your range is anything, even the great ones won’t trust their read. Only problem is you have to show your cards sometimes to let the table know you’ll play anything and in any way. If you do the same thing every time you have the same cards, it’s going to be easy to spot tells.
Unless she is really, really good at it, the friendly banter thing and the smile thing will get her in a lot of trouble, She has a very expressive face and that means that all of her emotions are out there to see. I am confident she does better online than in person as a result. So her real job is learning how to be the same smiling casual baner person while absolutely burying her real emotions and thoughts. Not sure that is going to be easy for her.
