Reading Poker Tells by Elwood Zachary

Author:Elwood, Zachary [Elwood, Zachary]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Via Regia
Published: 2012-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

I’ve seen this tell in lower stakes games, usually limit. It usually is in multi-way pots, when a number of players check to the guy who is last to act. The guy bets with a slightly perturbed, smirking look on his face, almost as if to say, “Well, if nobody else is going to bet, I guess it’s up to me.” Or it can happen in a heads-up pot where it’s been checked by both players on the flop and then checked once on the turn; the second player bets, but with that same expression of, “Guess I have to bet.”

As you would interpret from the classic “weak-means-strong” philosophy, this player appears upset with the turn of events, and so probably isn’t that upset. In my experience, though, he also won’t be very strong. Typically, when I see this tell, the player will have something like top pair with a medium kicker, or a second pair that he expects is good. It is hardly ever a very strong hand. A player with a strong hand in this spot would be more likely to remain stoic, or look disappointed as opposed to aggravated, in the hopes that someone gives him some action.

Interestingly, this is one of the few tells I’ve been able to regularly correlate with a medium-strength hand, as opposed to simply weak or strong.

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