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 enlarge | Author: Mike Caro
Publisher: Cardoza
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  78 reviews
Sales Rank: 6948
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1580420826
Dewey Decimal Number: 795.412019
EAN: 9781580420822
ASIN: 1580420826
Publication Date: March 18, 2003
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 nothing much to talk about March 30, 2007
is it just me or did this book not make much sense at all about tells? halfway through, i felt there were some contradicting arguments in the book..
be wise and borrow this from a friend..
 Poker Tells March 22, 2007
Well, this book has many tips on Poker tells but the really nice thing about it is that not only can you learn to read other people but you can use reverse psychology on them and use the tells to your advantage by "showing" a tell you want them to see and, therefore, fool them.
Poker Tells by Caro February 16, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Not easy to read or understand. Bounces back and forth between different types of poker games. If you play live action with 7 car stud, Hold'em, 5 card draw and omaha this may the book for you. I only play Hold'em and felt the book should have been sectioned off by game.
Widely read Classic February 2, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is a widely read classic, and if you are the only one at the table who has not read it you will be at a disadvantage. Topics like shuffling a hand, nervousness, fearlessness, glancing at chips, protecting a hand and many more are discussed and illustrated with pictures. The book is divided into two general sections: tells from those who are unaware that they are giving out tells and tells from actors whose tells are meant to mislead. For the latter group of tells, a tell denoting a weak hand generally means that they have a strong hand, and tells denoting strength actually denote weakness. The trick is to distinguish the actors from the unaware.
The biggest problem in applying this book is that it is so widely read that some actors try to do a double tell, i.e., denoting strength when they are strong, or weakness when they are actually weak, in the hope that people who have read the book will assume that the tell actually denoted the opposite. Thus, not only do you have to determine the actors from the unaware but you must also decide if the actor is trying to give a tell that denotes the opposite of the hand or one that denotes the hand in the hope that you will assume that it is the opposite. Things can thus get confusing very fast. Professionals claim that they try not to give any tells at all, which is a wise approach.
This book is useful on two levels. The beginner can learn about tells and those that they may be giving out, and the more advanced player how to utilize the tells that their opponents give out. As such, if you know nothing about tells, you will be clueless and likely to be a consistent loser. This book will at least help to level the playing field.
 Not much here January 31, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
It all boils down to "strong means weak, and weak means strong". Lots of photos of people sitting at a poker table, padding the size of the book. The photos look like they came from the 1940's. Betting patterns are much more reliable as tells than whether the guy looks at his chips or not.
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