This is just to mention that I started a Substack blog that I’ll be occasionally adding to. If you’re interested, please read the details about it here. The post Started a poker tells newsletter/blog on Substack appeared first on Reading Poker Tells - Poker Tells Training ..read more

You may know poker player Stephen Zolotow: he has appeared on quite a few televised poker shows. Zolotow wrote this piece for Cardplayer Magazine about his favorite hand. I wanted to write a few comments about the behavior-related stuff he wrote about. (Also, Zolotow’s piece is worth a read for some good explanations of why… The post Steve Zolotow’s favorite poker hand, which includes some tells appeared first on Reading Poker Tells - Poker Tells Training ..read more

Here are some interesting interviews I’ve done on the subject of poker tells: A talk with Dara O’Kearney about poker tells. Dara is the co-host of The Chip Race podcast. He talks about how his understanding of poker tells changed over his poker career, and a few anecdotes of interesting spots where tells came into… The post Interviews about poker tells appeared first on Reading Poker Tells - Poker Tells Training ..read more

On a recent People Who Read People podcast episode, I interviewed Brandon Sheils, a pro poker player who recently did a study on poker tells as part of his getting a Masters in Psychology. Brandon is a pro poker player and coach. You can see Brandon’s poker-focused YouTube channel here and his Twitter @brandonsheils here.… The post Pro poker player Brandon Sheils discusses his poker tells research project appeared first on Reading Poker Tells - Poker Tells Training ..read more

This is a compilation of all the episodes of my People Who Read People podcast that are related to understanding psychology and behavior in games and sports. (By the way, I recently created a YouTube channel for my podcast so I appreciate any subscriptions.) Game/sports-related episodes: Poker tells, with Dara O’Kearney (YouTube link): this was… The post Podcast episodes about the role of psychology and reading behavior in games and sports appeared first on Reading Poker Tells - Poker Tells Training ..read more

Phil Hellmuth often talks about his “white magic,” which is how he categorizes the unique edge that he has on other poker players. Hellmuth often claims he’s “the best” but at the same time he is often disrespected by strong players. Hellmuth’s promotion of his “white magic” is his way of saying “You don’t understand… The post What is Phil Hellmuth’s “white magic”? Can we define it? appeared first on Reading Poker Tells - Poker Tells Training ..read more

Dr. Jack Brown claims to be a “body language expert”. His Twitter is @DrGJackBrown and his website is www.bodylanguagesuccess.com. His Twitter bio reads “Body Language & Emotional Intelligence Expert, Speaker, Physician, Lecturer.” As of this moment, he has 115,000 Twitter followers. He gets a lot of likes and RTs from his long threads analyzing physical… The post Dr. Jack Brown, a so-called “behavior expert”, is a fraud appeared first on Reading Poker Tells - Poker Tells Training ..read more

I talked to Andrew Emory the other day. Emory is the creator of Next Generation Poker, an application for tracking live poker sessions (how much won and lost and similar info) and hand analysis (inputting hands played and learning about hand equity and range equity). It’s available for iOS and coming soon for Android. A… The post Next Generation Poker app makers find surprising result for best Omaha hand appeared first on Reading Poker Tells - Poker Tells Training ..read more

Not familiar with my poker tells work? Here’s an introduction. This will be some thoughts about Hellmuth’s behavior from a much-discussed hand from a March 2021 High Stakes Poker episode, in which Doug Polk and Hellmuth both flopped straights and Polk folded his lower straight to a big reraise shove from Hellmuth. The tells analysis… The post Doug Polk makes big fold versus Hellmuth: a poker tells examination appeared first on Reading Poker Tells - Poker Tells Training ..read more

The following is reposted from a 2015 piece I wrote for Bluff magazine. It was originally located at this URL but has become unavailable due to Bluff going out of business. I saw this study mentioned recently in Maria Konnikova’s book ‘The Biggest Bluff’ and was reminded about this piece and noticed it was offline,… The post Criticisms of Michael Slepian’s Stanford study on poker tells and hand movements (published 2015) appeared first on Reading Poker Tells - Poker Tells Training ..read more