Re: Reading a player\'s tells.
Hi Felipe,
In my opinion, tells are the most overrated aspect of poker. Player- and hand-reading have less to do with facial twitches than with pattern recognition. Does Able play a lot of pots (loose), or very few (tight)? Does he tend to check/call (passive), or bet/raise (aggressive)?
And it gets more detailed. Let's say Able is a player who almost always semi-bluffs a drawing hand if he is first to act, but takes a free card if he has position and it's checked to him. If you check to him and he bets, then you should put him on a made hand.
Then it goes to hand-reading. Based on this opponent's actions thus far in this pot, what range of hands is he likely to be playing? The deeper you go in the pot, the more you can narrow that range of hands.
Learning these skills will be a lot more profitable than general knowledge about facial tics and sighs, which tend to be very personal regardless.
Cris
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