Do Online Players Going B&M Have a Lot of Tells?

[drewjustdrew]

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-Don't look at your cards until it is your turn to act preflop


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I don't agree with this. It slows down the game and it basically draws everyone's attention to you at the point that you are most likely to expose facial/body language.

If I get a premium hand, I'll look at it for a shorter amount of time than a mediocre hand.

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-Don't look at your cards until it is your turn to act preflop


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I don't agree with this. It slows down the game and it basically draws everyone's attention to you at the point that you are most likely to expose facial/body language.

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The point of doing this is so no one knows what you will do before it's your turn to act, since you don't know what you will do. This prevents your giving off pre-fold / pre-call / pre-raise tells. It also allows you to look around and see how other people are reacting to their cards. As long as you can look at AA the same as 75, you should be okay.

For the OP, rule #1 protect your cards at all times. Some people put a chip on them, but I hold my cards throughout the hand with my left hand and bet with my right. Peel up the corners and make sure your neighbors can't see your cards....protect them with both hands when looking at them. Yes, acting quickly is a good idea, esp. at a low limit table.

Wouldn't worry too much about giving off tells...half the people aren't paying attention to you anyways. FWIW, I usually look at the board when I play.

ScottieK

[mostsmooth]

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-Don't look at your cards until it is your turn to act preflop


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I don't agree with this. It slows down the game and it basically draws everyone's attention to you at the point that you are most likely to expose facial/body language.

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yes, the extra 1 or 2 seconds is devistating

[27offsooot]

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Yes, for the most part. This typically doesn't matter in the limit games, but can in the NL games if you are playing high enough.

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LMFAO

Caro's book useful?

[RiverTheNuts]

I have this book too, I need to look through it now that I am B&M'ing it up, Im sure it could add around 1 BB/100 to my rate at 3/6

[Al_Capone_Junior]

The tells they give off are not the part of the typical online player's first trip to the cardroom that stands out the most.

What stands out is that they are typically complete stiffs who have absolutely NO CLUE about live cardroom behavior or ettiquette, let alone plain common sense or human decency. Yet they also can't stop telling everyone all about how they play online. I wish the vast majority of them would just GO BACK to playing online and stay the hell out of the cardrooms already.

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[bernie]

Some do. But they may have had those tells anyways.

Generally, they tend to have a problem with the speed of the game. They aren't used to watching a game unless they have a hand in it. Someone also mentioned suppressing emotions during a hand. You don't really get that online. When they get buried early in a session, after a couple hours, it tends to seem like forever to them. 1000 hands is alot different live than online multitabling.

I also like Al's response... [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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