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Specific Poker Tells Part2
6. Seeing the flop and quickly looking away. If
you hold 6V6*, and the flop is A*K4lOV, the flop is easy to read even if you still have to take an extra second or two to make sure you've read it correctly. If you hold AVA«£, however, and the flop is 94A43*, it will look like this to you:
When you see this, you'll know instantly that you're going to bet. You'll quickly glance at your chips to make sure they're still there, and then you'll look away from the table, feigning total disinterest in the hand.
7. Covering one's mouth. *•* A player who covers his mouth after betting is usually bluffing. What you're seeing is a conflict between the external physical action of betting and the internal knowledge of knowing you're "lying."
8. Betting in a flamboyant style. ** A player who throws his chips into the pot in a forceful or obviously exaggerated manner is usually bluffing. At the very least, he's trying to intimidate you into checking into him on the next round.
9. Making directed bets. A player who calls a bet by throwing his chips in the specific direction of a particular player (usually the bettor) is trying to intimidate the bettor into checking on the next round.
10. Staring at other players. ###This tell occurs most often after the river card comes and a player has missed a big draw. He will often noticeably raise his head from looking down at the flop, turn it to the left or right to face his sole opponent squarely, and then stare right at him. In poker language, this move means, "I just missed my flush draw. I'm entitled to win this hand, but I can't call a bet. Don't you dare bet into me."
11. Calling your bet immediately. ### A player who calls your bet and has his chips in the pot almost before you do has a weak calling hand. He'd rather you hadn't bet. Since you did, he wants his apparently quick and easy call to cause you to have second thoughts about betting into him on the next round.
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Poker Pre-flop Calling Odds Part2
If there are six callers including the big blind, then there's $19 in the pot. You have to divide your $2 call into $19 to get your odds. In this case it's 9.5 to 1, whereas if you had to call the whole bet, your odds would be only 6.33 to 1.
What hands should you call a raise with, if you're in the big blind? As I've said, people generally play too loose in this situation, often because of two factors:
1. You rarely know just what the raiser has. My years of experience have taught me that if you're a typical player, you'll underestimate or just plain ignore the strength of the raiser's hand, and you'll overestimate the value of your own hand. These two mistakes conspire to encourage you to call and see the flop with a lot of hands that should be folded.
2. You can never be sure of how the future action in the hand will go. It may require you to call bets and raises that you'd rather not.
Refer to the list of groups of hands in Chapter 9, the chapter called "Starting Hands." In the big blind, you would certainly want to call a preflop raise with these hands. These are all good, profitable hands, if you have the right pot odds to see the flop. Other hands do not play well head-up, especially if the other player has raised, telling you that he probably has a Group 1 or 2 hand. Low hands can and do win, but you can go a long time between wins with them, so you need big odds to play these inferior hands.
If you're in the small blind, you should play even fewer hands than you do in the big blind. Can you see why? It's because when you're in the small blind, there's another player behind you who can reraise, thereby giving you worse odds and making it more unlikely for you to win the hand (I'm talking about the big blind, in case you didn't realize it). When you're in the small blind, remember that you'll be in the worst possible position throughout the hand. You can't win the hand by checking, and bluffs from an early position are harder to pull off.
There's one more thing to consider when deciding to call a preflop raise from either blind. You have terrible position for the entire hand, and the raiser is in a much better spot. Before you call, therefore, you need to know how well the raiser plays. If he's a genuinely good player, you should not call as often with average hands. If he's a bad player, or happens to be playing very loosely, you can also play a little more loosely.
Remember, your profit in this game comes from the mistakes your opponents make. If the preflop raiser is a player who doesn't make many mistakes, and his raise tells you that he wants to win this hand, maybe you should think about letting him win it. You can win the next one.
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