Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 17
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Hahahaha last night It was me and another guy in a pot, I had A7.
He had about $17.50 in chips I had about $27.50 and the chips were valued.
Now this guy is just a beginner, better than a fish but still falls for acting. I'd never played with him before but I realized I basically had a fish acting directly behind me. So anyways, everyone fold to us. We both call the blinds or whatever and the flop comes 3 7 7, giving me the nut set. I forget which suits they were. I check to the guy and just stare at the cards/table. I notice he starts to count his chips as if he's going all-in and I realize he's seeing if I'm gonn show any sign of weakness at this or give off a tell. So I give him one. I act fidgity and put my head in my hand not very dramatically but subtly looking disappointed in the flop and at the prospect of him raising.
He goes AI for $17.50 trying to steal the $1 pot. I quickly call and flip em. He cusses a few times and I just keep starin at the table feelin bad for the guy because he had quit his job and decided he's going to play poker for a living... and he just lost his last $20 bucks or something. After the hand he said he went all in because I looked disappointed that he was raising. I told him that was my intent.
Anyways... the point is that if you act for a beginner they're likely to fall for it. Last night playing in the hardest game I've every played (the other people were good and some frequent casinos) I spotted the sucker and used TELLs to take down a huge pot that almost doubled my chip stack. These chips woulda went to one of the other guys who were good boarderline expert but instead they went to the novice (me) because I used a simple thing like a tell to my advantage. It's not just "spotting tells" It's about using tells to your advantage in a wide array of situations. Sometimes this means giving them to induce a certain action from an opponent.
Note: I'd not have tried this poor acting job against one of the better players at the table and I don't reccomend any of you doing that either.
After that big hand I cashed out my $20 buy-in so I for sure wouldn't lose any money. I was still the big stack at the table but I went on to lose a $75 dollar pot, went down to $10 left, brought it up to $15 and by that time the last 3 players (myself included) wanted to cash out so I left with my buy-in and an extra 15 bucks to take home.
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