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

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INTRODUCTION
Once you've mastered the basic elements of a winning poker formula, psychology becomes the
key ingredient in separating break-even players from players who win consistently. The most
profitable kind of poker psychology is the ability to read your opponents. Imagine the edge
having this ability would give you and then imagine how much money you could win with it!
This is exactly what I'll show you in this book. Bring this knowledge to the poker table and you
will win money — it's as simple as that!
Any mannerism which helps you determine the secrets of an opponent's hand is called a tell.
Look closely and you'll see opponents giving away the strength of their hands just by their
mannerisms. Until a few years ago, nobody understood tells thoroughly. Experienced players
would try to uncover trends in their opponents' behavior. Maybe they discovered that one
opponent would always loosen his tie five minutes before attempting a major bluff. Such
discoveries are important, but there's a much better way to go about reading opponents — and
that's what you'll learn in this book.
If you wanted to catalog all the possible tells an opponent might exhibit, the list might go on
forever. You could sit for a few days and jot down several thousand things that opponents might
do under stress.
Unfortunately, after all that work, your list would be pitifully incomplete. There are millions of
tells you could write down if you could only think of them all.
There is a simple way to read your opponents. You must learn the motives behind their actions.
Then, even when you encounter a tell you've never seen before, you'll have a good idea of what
it means. When you're finished with this book, you won't have to memorize all the actions of
each opponent. Instead, you'll be able to fit their mannerisms into universal categories of tells.
You'll often know exactly what they hold and, better still, you'll know why they're acting as they
are. You'll get deep inside their minds. And sometimes you'll be positive what cards an
opponent holds — just as if he'd turned his hand face up on the table!
When you can do that, your profits will soar. In my opinion, a conscientious winner will at least
triple his profits once he masters the science of tells.
It's important that you comprehend the reason why many tells happen. Most tells occur because
players are trying to conceal the true strength of their hands. The most likely way they attempt
to do this is to act in a manner that will convey the opposite of what they're holding. If a hand is
weak, they'll try to convince you it's strong. If a hand is strong, they'll try to convince you it's
weak. In this sense, your opponents are actors.
This brings us to ...
Caro's Great Law of Tells
Players are either acting or they aren't. If they are acting, then decide what
they want you to do and disappoint them.
Remember, keep a cool, disinterested attitude. You should be as eager to find a reason to pass as
you should be to call. Concentrate and let the tells talk.
When you graduate from this tells course, you'll know for sure why this man ...
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