This is why it is critical to be disciplined in how long you take for your actions. I am no good at this because I am a basket case who has to do everything at 100 MPH.......

With that said, you should try to always take the same amount of time when acting on line to prevent reads and keep people guessing. It pisses people off, but somewhere areound 10 seconds is good. Even if you know what you are doing before it gets to you give yourself a 10 count before proceeding.

I need to improve this. I am certain that there are many times where I would have re-evaluated a situation if I had forced myself to wait a pre-determined amount of time before acting. So besides not giving off tells, you get the added benefit of forcing yourself to think more.

Originally Posted by Jason75

Not to mention the delays from people who are multi-tabling, or who have a slow connection.

yep, and server glitch.

I used to rely on "online tells" before aswell, now I usually don't give them much creed. Delays can be caused by alot of reasons; internet problems, server glitches, multi-tabling etc...

Obviously if people are using advanced option's then you can usually pick up on it.

I try to be consitant on the amount of time I take but when playing 3+ tables its hard enough for me to keep up.

Originally Posted by Keefter

That whole take 15 seconds to bet teh river because I have the nuts and they'll think I'm bluffing thing is so obvious. 9/10 if someone does that I'm beaten, I've done it myself a few times when I haven't had the best hand and been called though so many its only me lol.

The only time I really think this works is when you have been raised into hard on the river and you hold the nuts. I know Im gonna raise, but I dont like raising so quickly. I let a few seconds of my timebank go bye and then raise about 120-80% of the pot size. Get called usally 8/10 times.

I agree that a lot of this is nonsense since half of the people are looking at porn, watching tv, and playing 3 tables at same time. Regardless, you should try to take same amount of time on your own actions just to play it safe and not give away any info.


I try not to bother changing my patterns in order to send a desired message because you typically end up falling into cliches like waiting to look weak or acting fast to look strong. The best way is too keep em guessing by sending no info.