+Mike Caro - Caros Book Of Poker Tells.pdf - Time Out Hut

TELL #16
Photo 26:
He immediately glances down at his chips.
Photo 27:
Now he looks away as if uninterested.
TITLE: Great flop, better make sure my chips are still here.
CATEGORY: Glancing at Chips.
DESCRIPTION: The quick-glance-at-chips tell occurs very frequently in hold 'em. In Photo
28, the flop registers in the player's mind. Instinctively she looks at her chips (Photo 29). But
you have to watch closely or you'll miss it, because by Photo 30 — less than one second later —
she's looking toward the flop.
MOTIVATION: An instinctive reaction after the flop helps her hand.
RELIABILITY:
• Weak players = 98%
• Average players = 96%
• Strong players = 90%
VALUE PER HOUR:
• $1 limit = $2.75
• $10 limit = $9.50
• $100 limit = $40.00
DISCUSSION: This is very similar to — and, in fact, conceptually identical to — the previous
tell. This woman does not look away from the action, however. Instead, she pretends to study
the flop. Of course, she already knows very well that the flop helped her, so she doesn't need to
study. She's just trying to make you think she's weaker than she is. If you were watching the flop
— as even most professional players invariably do — you would have missed this very
profitable opportunity and you wouldn't know that the woman now holds a strong hand.
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