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| Ultimate Guide to Poker Tells: Devastate Opponents by Reading Body Language, Table Talk, Chip Moves, And Much More |  | Authors: Randy Burgess, Carl Baldassarre
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 210,679
Media: Paperback
Pages: 197
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 6.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 157243807X
Dewey Decimal Number: 795.412
EAN: 9781572438071
ASIN: 157243807X
Publication Date: April 10, 2006
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Learn to Read Tells to Increase Your Chances of Winning! Anyone can win in poker if they hold the best cards; the trick is to win when you dont! Thats where tells come inthose subtle ways in which opponents betray themselves through body language, table talk, chip moves, eye contact, and more. Ultimate Guide to Poker Tells is a treasure trove of behavioral information to give you a huge edge over your competition. Youll learn when your opponents are bluffing, when they arent, and why by improving your ability to read their speech patterns and mannerisms. With this knowledge you can exploit their weaknesses and win pots by betting or raising at just the right time. Tells are rarely obvious, and it takes concentration to find them, but this book will teach you how to identify them and use them to your advantage. Ultimate Guide to Poker Tells is a must-read for anyone who wants to improve their play.
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 Eye-opening Book Helps an online player shift to casino play May 26, 2006
S. Carroll (NY)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
I am an online player and therefore very familair with hand percentages, pot odds and basic betting strategy. However, in a live game I sometimes feel a little out of my element. This book opened my eyes to much of what I needed to pay attention too. To fully appreciate the book, you must have a pretty good knowledge of the game, but the book was helpful in that it put a lot of what happens at a live table in context. One would think some of the observations are obvious, but knowing what to look for and pay attention to truly does allow you to better trust your gut and instincts during a game. I don't even look at my cards until I have to anymore. Rather I study the table based on techniques garnered form the book. Not only do learn about the other players at the table through observation, but it helps you set up a strategy for your own behavior when its your turn. Bottom line...highly recommended for the fairly new but serious player.
New and different May 22, 2006
Thomas Young (San Francisco)
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
I've been playing for about a year and a half, mostly tournaments and mostly online. But I have recently played a couple of live events and also play in a regular home game. I've read several of the strategy books mentioned by the other reviewers here and thought Harrington and Gordon were both great. But I don't agree that the Ultimate Guide to Poker Tells is bad -- granted I haven't read the Caro book, but I got a lot out of this one. The whole idea of how tells occur and how to look for individual ones was new -- I'd noticed some of the things they mention, or read about it as part of other books or articles, but I thought there was a lot of good stuff gathered here. I'm giving it five stars, because for me it was definitely a shortcut to reading tells in live games. Based on the other reviews, I'm guessing that more experienced live game players may already know alot of this stuff. But I think that paying $14 was a bargain vs. the price of learning this stuff "the hard way".
Highly entertaining -- and valuable-- insights May 3, 2006
Bmac (New Jersey)
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
The authors have done a great job of putting everything you need to know about the "body language of poker" into one book -- and making it a great read. I liked the information about where tells fit in to human behavior. It made the later chapters on specific tells much more valuable, and let me apply them to just about any situation. I also liked the photo section, and the tells broken out by game. As a hold'em player, I definitely have gone back to the limit and no limit sections again and again. Perhaps the best thing about the book, though, is that it puts tells in context with game strategy and betting patterns. The authors point out that you can see tells all the time, but you can only use them effectively when you take the total situation into account. The book is really a quick read, not a textbook. Yet it had enough information that I'll be going back to it for years to come. Definitely earns a place of honor on my poker shelf!
Good book, but it doesn't have anything really new. June 30, 2006
M. R Turner (Edgemoor, SC United States)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
The strategies and facts in the book are well-presented and well-written, and there are several good tidbits of information inside... But as far as being what its title suggests, well, I reckon it's good marketing. It does provide much of the information from Caro's original "Book of Tells" and expands on some of it, but as I wrote a moment ago, it doesn't have anything that someone who's been playing live (not online) poker for a year or so wouldn't know already -- other than a few bits here and there.
I'd recommend this book to beginners and studious amateurs.
Good stuff May 23, 2006
Dr. Jazz (New York, NY)
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
This book isn't about strategy at all. It's about playing the players, and all the funky stuff they do. I haven't seen anything else like it (and I've read alot of poker books). It made me smile with recognition, as all the stuff I knew about how players act was on the page. A quick read and miles from the usual odds and outs!
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