Product Description

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 don’t! That’s where tells come in—those 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. You’ll learn when your opponents are bluffing, when they aren’t, 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #209495 in Books
• Brand: SportsMagicK
• Published on: 2006-04-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 197 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781572438071
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

it was a good idea...
I wavered between a 3 and a 4 rating. If you don't have Mike Caro's "Book of Tells" you will find some good stuff here; if you have the "Book of Tells" you are going to think you have an updated version. It is well written and well organized. As a "Tells" book it is not bad, but the majority is borrowed and thus unoriginal. The authors, who I feel it important to mention, are primarily writers and not poker players(taken from their own "bio" material from the book). They have collected and re-written the tells information from other published works and added a small amount of original material. The original material is a small part of the book and nothing "definitively" new.

Collecting tells information from numerous sources and presenting it as a single source is a very good idea; unfortunately, in my opinion they dropped the ball on what could have been an even better book. My own notebooks contain many tells not even mentioned in this "Ultimate Guide". If they were more serious players or diligent author/ researchers they would have provided us with a much richer and and more complete book of tells, given their title. If it is your first tells book it gets a 4; if not it gets a 3. I don't think it is a bad book, I just don't feel it lives up to it's title or presents any new or especially useful material that is not mostly covered in Caro's book.

The addition of "angle plays" may be quite helpful to newer players and is good advice for protecting your cards and yourself at all times. The book has several merits that Caro's book does not, but Caro's book still holds up surprisingly well even after over twenty years. All in all a helpful book although a little short as "The Ultimate Guide" to tells.

Good book, but it doesn't have anything really new.
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.

Eye-opening Book Helps an online player shift to casino play
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.