Online Tells

Author: Simon Dexter

Hi,

I read recently (not here) that online poker players who call a raise a little too quickly are likely to be on a draw. Armed with this information, I re-raised an opponent I saw do this and duly ran straight into a monster hand. I ended up getting busted out of the tournament simply because I thought I had picked-up an online tell. What did I do wrong?
PR, Kent

Listen PR,

You did nothing wrong, but every now and then, you just have to attribute such a setback to experience.
No-one will (or they shouldn’t) suggest that interpreting tells, be they on- or offline, is a precise art; they’re just one piece of the massive array of detail you must take into account before taking a decision. It’s also worth pointing out that many of your opponents will have read the same books of tells. Not surprisingly then, a number will be capable of deliberately faking “reverse tells”; isn’t that awful? Seriously, you should never allow a tell alone to determine your moves at the table and if you did make a mistake, it was that.

Tags: online tells, Poker Strategy, Poker tells, Poker Tips

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