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Default Seven Tells for Beginners

I made this for my site, and want to know what you guys think about it!

Tells for Beginners
If you have been playing poker regularly, you may have heard the word 'tell' come up quite a few times. So what is it? A tell is usually an involuntary action that a player makes, that is used to assess the players hand. No, this does not mean accidentally flipping or showing your cards, even though that would be great for you! Most tells are changes in players behaviors or actions that give clues about the strength of their hand. A player gains advantages if he observes and understands the meaning of another player's tell, particularly if the tell is unconscious and reliable. Sometimes a player may fake a tell, hoping to induce his opponents to make poor judgments in response to the false tell. If you are playing against a rather weak, or new, player you can rely that the tell is involuntary and reliable.
You may notice many advanced or professional players watch their opponents as the dealer deals the flop. This is because most players may give of the most tells while watching the flop. You may read about this later.
I'll give you a few basic tells that most people will know about.

1. Acting Un-Interested While Participating in a Hand
category : Strong hand
This is sometimes an unreliable tell when playing beginners, because sometimes new players really are uninterested while playing that hand. But when playing with semi-good players it can be super reliable.
You can rely that the player has a mega-hand when they seem completely disinterested, or when they stare and quickly lookaway when you glance at them.
If this player bets, you should probably fold.

2.Nervousness
category : Strong hand
Most beginner players lose a lot of money, because they don't know what shaking hands or fumbled bets mean. Most beginners may think this as the player trying to pull a big bluff, so they willingly call, or raise.
This nervousness is 80-90% of the time because the player holds a big hand and is excited about how much money he could win, and is amazed at the size of his hand!
If you spot this nervousness, you better fold.

3. Checking, then Betting
Category : Strong hand
Some amatuer players who know a little, but obviously not a lot, will do this. Say a player has bet 50 into a pot of 100, and everyone calls. The flop is 7, 4, K. The player checks, and everyone checks along. The turn is a 2. The player overbets and a few players call.
What do you think he hit? A 2? No way! Chances are he hit a pair or 2 pair on the flop, unless he hit trip 2's (which would be rare...), so he tried to trick people into thinking he had nothing on the flop, and hit the two, which he didn't.
So assuming he has at least a pair from the flop, you should fold if you have not hit anything yet.

4. Long Time to Raise
category : Strong hand
If you have bet and your opponent stalls or takes a long time to raise, he is probably calculating his odds and what he should bet, so if he does raise I would usually back-out before you get busted.

5. Heavy Breathing
Category : Strong hand
Even though most players can control their shaking when they hit big or have pocket aces, most players cannot control their natural heartbeat. When their heartbeat rises, they start breathing harder and fatser. If you can visibly see your opponents chests beating faster than normal, please fold.


6. Looking at Hole Cards After The Flop/Turn
category : Drawing hand
If your opponent is looking, or checking his hole cards again, theres around a 50% chance he holds a drawing hand. On the flop, if he bets, I would probably call him if I held at least a pair. On the turn if he bet, i would raise him with at least two pair, on the river if he just checked and theres no chance of a flush or straight, reraise him a lot.


7. The Stare-Down
category : Weak
If your opponent is staring you down in an intimidating or aggressive manner, He probably has a weak hand. This is associated with the most basic rule of poker psychology(strong means weak, weak means strong). A player will seem tough and strong with a weak hand and will pretend to have crap with a marginal hand. if you have at least high pair, or two-pair, consider calling.

Please tell me what you think about this article, thank you!

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