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Poker tells are a tricky topic.

Most beginners put way too much credence into tells

early in their poker journey. Eating 😗 an Oreo cookie could mean someone has a strong

hand in the movies, but in real life…not so much.

But many 😗 experienced pros focus

solely on playing a good strategy, completely ignoring live poker tells in the

process.

The correct path is 😗 somewhere in the middle–focusing on strategy while also

considering tells when they present themselves.

Which common poker tells deserve your

attention? 😗 We’ve brought in acclaimed poker tells expert Zach Elwood to help answer

this question. Zach runs a training site that 😗 focuses on poker tells, and his content

has been recommended by many very successful pros.

Now, let’s kick it over to

😗 Zach.

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Hey Upswing readers! I’m Zachary Elwood. I’m here to

share a 😗 new, updated list of the top 7 most useful poker tells.

I chose these tells

because they are common or reliable, 😗 or both.

First, a little about my expertise on the

subject.

After my first book Reading Poker Tells was well-received in 2012, 😗 I knew I

would only be writing more books if I had something new and interesting to say. In 2013

😗 I spent 8 months straight, full-time (50+ hours a week, no joke), researching and

writing the book Verbal Poker Tells.

I 😗 didn’t plan on spending that long, but as I

watched a lot of televised poker and took notes as I 😗 played, I found there was a lot

more to say about verbal patterns than what I’d initially imagined.

Some of the 😗 tells

below may seem common-sense when reading them, but I’ve found when you really start

keying into the major patterns 😗 and looking for some of these elements, you’ll start to

understand a lot of during-hand much better than you thought 😗 possible.

7 Poker Tells

That Deserve Your Attention

Click any of these tells for a detailed explanation that

will help your game:

The 😗 first four poker tells focus on physical tells while the last

three will focus on verbal patterns. Behavior associated with 😗 large bets is the most

reliable type of behavior, so these patterns all apply best to players making

significant bets.

Tell 😗 #1: Defensive Movements

Most experienced players know that when

you reach for chips to bet and your opponent then also starts 😗 to reach for chips, as if

ready to immediately call, it’s an sign they probably don’t have a strong hand.

Mike

😗 Caro discusses this tell in his 70’s classic Caro’s Book of Poker Tells: The Psychology

and Body Language of Poker. 😗 The reason why it’s a reliable tell is simple: holding a

strong hand, a player is not likely to give 😗 a player in front of them a reason not to

bet; to the contrary, they’re more likely to sit still, 😗 not reach for chips, etc.

But

the weaker a player’s hand is, the more likely it is they’ll make some sort 😗 of gesture

to try to prevent you from betting.

There are more subtle ways this tell can manifest

itself. Often, even 😗 just a small unusual movement from a waiting-to-act player makes it

more likely they’re not at the top of their 😗 range.

Most of this behavior originates

unconsciously; it’s instinctively defensive, not something planned and acted out.

Consequently, defensive movements aren’t likely 😗 to be reverse tells, and so they can be

quite reliable.

Here are a couple examples of subtle movements:

Minor chip movements

😗 before checking to the aggressor

Suppose that, on the turn, a player checks and calls a

bet from a player behind 😗 in a timely manner. On the river, the first player then slowly

grabs her chips and riffles them for a 😗 couple seconds before checking. This behavior is

subtle, but it can be a sign that she is unconsciously trying to 😗 give the impression

that she has interest in the pot, which makes a weak hand more likely. The lesson here

😗 is that you should look for defensive behaviors when opponents check, not just when

they are facing a potential bet.

Subtle 😗 hand movements toward one’s chips

Suppose that

on the river a player checks and, as his opponent thinks, the first player 😗 positions

his hand on the rail, close to his chips. Even small movements toward one’s chips can

be a subtle 😗 indicator of discomfort, and thus an unconscious attempt to discourage a

bet.

Subtle indicators like these are far from perfectly reliable, 😗 of course, so it

helps if you can find other signs of defensive behavior, such as:

Staring intensely

after a check

Sitting 😗 awkwardly still after a check

The more signs that indicate

defensiveness, the more you might have the opportunity to bluff.

One caveat: 😗 Some

players move around a good amount in general, and so this pattern will be less reliable

for these players. 😗 You should always study your opponents over time to get a sense of

how they normally behave.

And of course: even 😗 if you correctly read an opponent as

having a weak hand, there’s no guarantee they’ll actually be folding. Even with 😗 a

strong read of weakness, how loose your opponent is should always be a

consideration.

Tell #2: Hesitations and Pauses When 😗 Betting

When a player makes a

significant bet, hesitations and pauses will make strong hands more likely. Players

betting weak hands 😗 and bluffs will usually do so straightforwardly and normally,

without pauses.

A couple examples of hesitating-type behaviors:

A player has a lot 😗 of

stop-and-start movements when gathering or placing the bet.

A player announces “bet” or

“raise” and then pauses a while before 😗 announcing the amount or putting in chips.

What

are the reasons for this pattern?

Players betting weak hands and bluffs don’t want 😗 to

be studied for any longer than is necessary. The longer the bet takes, the more likely

it becomes that 😗 an opponent might pick up something on them (even something wrong) that

can be interpreted as a sign of a 😗 weak hand.

The longer the bet takes, the more likely

it becomes that an opponent might pick up something on them 😗 (even something wrong) that

can be interpreted as a sign of a weak hand. Players betting weak hands and bluffs 😗 want

to convey confidence. Betting straightforwardly and normally is one way to convey

confidence.

Betting straightforwardly and normally is one way 😗 to convey confidence.

Players betting strong hands can have incentive to convey uncertainty, so you’re more

likely to find hesitating 😗 and uncertain behaviors from strong hand bettors.

As with

most bet-related tells, it’s much easier to find signs of relaxation and 😗 strength in

bettors than it is to find indicators of anxiety or a weak hand. Players betting strong

hands often 😗 give themselves away by doing unusual things that bluffers generally aren’t

willing to do or aren’t comfortable doing.

Tell #3: Double-checking 😗 Hole Cards

The

meaning of double-checking hole cards depends on the situation:

For players who are

waiting-to-act or who end up checking, 😗 double-checking hole cards will generally

indicate weak hands. (This is the case with other ostentatious behaviors as well.)

For

instance: a 😗 player calls a pre-flop raise, sees the flop, and then double-checks his

cards a couple times before checking.

If this player 😗 flopped a very strong hand, like a

set, they’d likely be very stoic and wouldn’t draw attention to themselves. Like 😗 many

ostentatious behaviors from non-aggressors (i.e., checkers, callers), this is an

indication that they’re not mentally focused and unlikely to 😗 have much of a hand.

For

players who have just made a significant bet, double-checking hole cards will generally

indicate relaxation 😗 and a strong hand.

For instance: a player makes a big bet on the

river and, soon after, double-checks his cards.

If 😗 this player were bluffing, he

wouldn’t want to do something that could theoretically convey weakness or uncertainty.

And double-checking hole 😗 cards can, to many people, convey uncertainty, so a bluffer

would instinctively just not want to risk that interpretation.

This is 😗 a good example

of how important it is to interpret poker tells in the context of the surrounding

situation. It’s 😗 a mistake to take a “this means that” approach to behaviors; there are

always multiple factors influencing the meaning of 😗 behavior.

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Tell #4: Quicker-than-usual Calls

Of all the bet-timing tells, quick calls are

😗 probably the most generally useful. Quick calls will generally indicate weak or

medium-strength hands.

Why is this? When a player immediately 😗 calls a bet, it means

that they have immediately ruled out a raise. Because players with strong hands are

often 😗 focused on maximizing value and playing their hand the best way they can, this

makes it unlikely that an immediate 😗 call is made by a player with a strong hand. If a

player with a strong hand does decide to 😗 only call, he will usually take a few seconds

to reach that decision.

Immediate calls will be most practically useful pre-flop 😗 and on

the flop just because this is usually when bets are small enough for players to be

capable of 😗 calling without much thought. On the turn, bets are bigger and most players

will tend to think longer about these 😗 bets no matter what they have.

Pre-flop, for many

players, an unusually quick call of a 3-bet or a 4-bet will 😗 make it likely that the

player has QQ or JJ. These are hands that many players consider too strong to 😗 fold, but

also too weak to reraise with. With all other hands, including AK, most players will at

least consider 😗 folding or reraising.

Keep in mind that ‘quick’ is of course subjective

and dependent on what you think is normal for 😗 a player and situation. Depending on

circumstances, a quick call could take several seconds.

The overall aggression of a

player can 😗 be a factor in narrowing their hand range. For example, when an aggressive

player quickly calls a bet on a 😗 flop of J♥ 7♥ 2♠, it’s become unlikely that that player

has a flush draw, because an aggressive player will 😗 usually at least consider a raise,

even if he ends up only calling.

Another factor in interpreting immediate calls is the

😗 time that has passed during that round. The quicker an immediate call occurs after the

last card(s) has been dealt 😗 will be more likely to indicate a weak hand. If a player

has had a long time to think about 😗 what his action might be (for example, if his

opponent thinks a long time before betting), then his immediate call 😗 will be less

likely to adhere to the general pattern.

Tell #5: Weak-hand statements

What’s a

weak-hand statement? It’s a statement that 😗 seems on the surface to weaken the hand

range of a speaker.

A weak-hand statement, when said by a player making 😗 a significant

bet, strengthens that player’s range.

For example, a player bets and says, “I’m just on

a draw; don’t worry.” 😗 He would be unlikely to weaken his hand range like that, even

jokingly, when bluffing. Bluffers generally don’t want to 😗 risk such things and stick to

neutral statements or strong-hand statements if they choose to speak.

This fits the

general and 😗 well-known “weak means strong” category of poker tells and may seem

somewhat obvious. But there is value in analyzing bettors’ 😗 statements to look for

not-so-obvious instances of weak-hand statements.

Here are a couple more subtle

examples of weak-hand statements:

On the river, 😗 a player studies his opponent and says,

“I don’t think you have anything,” before shoving all-in.

By stating his opponent

doesn’t 😗 have anything, he is indirectly stating that he himself does not need a strong

hand to bet. It’s an indirect 😗 weak-hand statement.

A player shoved on the river and

when his opponent doesn’t call immediately, the player says, “Whew, I was 😗 afraid you’d

snap-call!”

His statement’s surface level meaning is: “I have a strong hand, but I

don’t have the nuts.” It 😗 is a weak-hand statement that removes the strongest hands from

his range, and that is something a bluffer would hardly 😗 ever want to do.

Strong-hand

statements are much harder to interpret than weak-hand statements. Bluffers obviously

have an incentive to imply 😗 or state that their hands are strong, so you’ll hear a good

amount of strong-hand statements from them.

Also, players betting 😗 with strong hands may

just be very relaxed and enjoy telling the truth, or enjoy trying some reverse

psychology. I 😗 would wager you’ve seen plenty of bluffers AND players betting strong

hands say things like, “I’ve got the nuts, I’m 😗 telling you.”

If you watched the 2024

WSOP Main Event final table, you might have seen the hand where Scott Blumstein 😗 made a

full house with his T♠ 9♠ versus Pollak. Pollak checked his straight on the river and

Blumstein bet. 😗 After some talking by Pollak, Blumstein said, “You’re going to let me

bluff you on national TV?”

In such a high-stakes 😗 spot, it’s quite unlikely that

Blumstein would risk placing the idea he were bluffing in Pollak’s mind, in my

opinion.

One 😗 of the reasons this kind of behavior is so valuable is that it’s hard to

predict how an opponent will 😗 react to one’s “speech play”. This means players are

generally very cautious about what they say and don’t want to 😗 accidentally influence an

opponent to call. This makes weak-hand statements accompanying significant bluffs quite

rare, even amongst better players who 😗 are theoretically more capable of switching such

things up if they wishes.

Another interesting thing about Blumstein’s statement: it was

a 😗 bit goading, which leads me to…

Tell #6: Goading

A goad is defined as something “that

urges or forces someone to do 😗 something”. Its meaning comes from a tool named the goad,

which is a pointed rod used to get an animal 😗 to move forward.

Goading in poker takes

the form of a player trying to abuse and agitate an opponent into taking 😗 some

action.

When a player engages in goading behavior when making a significant bet, he’s

more likely to have a strong 😗 hand. It doesn’t really matter in which direction a goad

is trying to influence someone; just the mere fact that 😗 it seems intended to get

someone to do something makes it a goad and increases the chances it’s said by 😗 a

relaxed, strong-hand bettor.

The main reason for this is similar to the rules governing

weak-hand statements: bluffers do not want 😗 to accidentally agitate an opponent and

trigger what Mike Caro called a player’s “calling reflex.”

Some examples of goading

statements:

A bettor 😗 saying, “I dare you to call me.”

A bettor saying, “I know you’re

folding.”

A bettor saying, “You’re going to let me 😗 bluff you on national TV?”

That last

one is the statement we talked about in the last section from Blumstein at 😗 the WSOP ME

final table. Not only is it a weak-hand statement, it’s also a bit goading. Blumstein’s

statement could 😗 be interpreted as, “I’m bluffing you and I dare you to call me.”

His

statement is of course open to interpretation, 😗 but even so, his statement raises the

emotional stakes by seemingly trying to influence Pollak to do something, even if 😗 we’re

not sure what that something is. And that is something that a bluffer tends to avoid,

because he has 😗 to be afraid of his opponent acting on his goading statement (whether

logically or illogically) and calling him.

The fear of 😗 looking stupid is another reason

weak-hand statements and goading statements are so heavily weighted to strong hands. If

a bluffer 😗 says something like, “Don’t let me bluff you,” and ends up being called, that

is emotionally a tough thing to 😗 deal with. In such a situation, a bluffer would often

be angry with himself, thinking, “Why did I say I 😗 had a weak hand.”

Fear of feeling

dumb is a major reason bluffers don’t often try unusual or tricky things; most 😗 people

don’t want to face the self-doubt and questions involved in taking an unusual risk and

it not paying off.

When 😗 skilled players play other skilled players, these things are

capable of being more reversed and varied. But for most players, 😗 these are generally

strong patterns.

Tell #7: Irritation

Similar to the reasons why goading is a sign a

player is relaxed, irritation 😗 or rudeness from a player making a big bet is a clue that

player is relaxed.

Bluffers generally don’t want to 😗 express irritation or anger because

they don’t want to risk agitating an opponent with their behavior. Some examples of

irritated 😗 behavior:

A player shoves on the river and says, “What’s taking you so

long?”

A player 5-bets all-in pre-flop and says angrily, 😗 “Raise, raise, raise, here’s a

raise.”

A player shoves on the river and calls the clock on his opponent in an 😗 agitated

way. (One small note about this one: because it’s a well-known indicator of relaxation,

I’ve seen this be a 😗 reverse tell a good number of times when a good player called the

clock on another good player.)

Players with weak 😗 hands in these situations do not

generally want to risk angering their opponent.

Another interesting way this pattern

shows up is 😗 in the context of that often-heard question, “Will you show if I fold?”

Affirmative responses to this question don’t contain 😗 much meaning; you’ll often hear

players with both strong and weak hands be willing to say, “Yes, sure, I’ll show,” 😗 to

this question.

But saying, “No,” to this question is weighted significantly to

relaxation and strong hands. This is because bluffers 😗 don’t want to risk angering their

opponent with a negative answer. It becomes even more likely to adhere to the 😗 pattern

the more rudely or aggressively the “No” is said.

A note about non-big-bet

situations

One important point: irritation from players not 😗 making significant bets

will be tied to weak hands and defensiveness.

For example, let’s say a player is

waiting for his 😗 opponent to act on the river and says, “Come on, what’s taking so

long?” and seems agitated, it has become 😗 significantly more likely that the speaking

player is defensive and doesn’t have a strong hand. This is because players with 😗 weak

hands:

Are often less focused on the hand Lack the incentive of players with very

strong hands to not draw 😗 attention to themselves May have an incentive to say or do

something to discourage an opponent from betting.

This is generally 😗 true for most

verbal behavior, so that most early-hand or waiting-for-action talking in general will

slightly weaken a player’s range. 😗 This is a general pattern, of course, not a

super-reliable one.

One example of how this kind of behavior might lead 😗 to practical

action: a player raises and you have a hand that could easily be 3-bet or folded. As

you 😗 think, the raiser looks at you and asks, “What’s the hold-up?” If you’re on the

fence, that behavior should encourage 😗 you to raise, because this behavior from a player

in a non-big-bet situation makes it a bit less likely he 😗 has a strong hand.

summarize: big-bet situations are very different than non-big-bet situations, including

early-hand or small-bet bettors. Thinking more 😗 about situational factors helps you

better understand verbal poker behavior.

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