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frankiebj

09-15-2008, 12:55 AM Post subject: Tells beyond the green felt

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"What you are saying, i Ain`t buying"

- A breakdown of tells beyond the green felt.

(Reason for this article is a conversation i had with a friend late last night.(det e du Malin

) She wanted to
learn how to read people, and who would pass up a chance to do so??
Make no mistake: Learning to pick up tells and interpert them so you can use them correctly is a
lifetime work. But a few simple things can get you far along the road)

Today im gonna write an article about tells. This time show you how easy it is to transfer tells you discover in an opponent sitting across the the table from you AND put them in context to everyday situations.

When humans socially interact we send out verbal and non verbal signals. this we all know,
But the thing most people dont know is how to pick up and use these non verbal signals to
their advantage. Sounds promissing?? At the age of only 21 i have been studying tells in other
people for about 4 years. A lot of my knowledge i have to give FBI special agent Joe Navarro credit for. His book: read em and reap took me inside a new world. After 25 years of interregating suspects this man could probably tell what i was thinking about the same time i did. I really recommend that book to everyone interested

but lets get down and dirty:

When you are involved in a conversation what do you notice about the person you are talking to?
Think about it.. When you stand face to face with another human being talking about some
measly thing like the weather or the game last night what do you pick up?
Most people pick up jack shit. The problem is that most people go through life looking but not truly seing. (That was kinda deep wasn`t it??)
That is: they view their sorroundings with the minimal amount of observational effort to get by. They dont have a solid mental picture of what is going on around them

There are always people blindsided to things going on around them like:

"My wife just filed for divorce. i never saw it comming"

"My son has been on drugs for 5 years. i Had no idea"

"i was arguing with this guy and all of a sudden he punched me. i had no inkling"

Statements from people who never have learned to effectivly observe.

Good news: observation is a skill. A skill we can train. And thats what we`ll do.

Ways to train this skill: Observe the world around you. This however comes with a cost.
I myself can more often then not be observed sitting with a beer in one hand and my thoughts deeply burried in something
that has caught my attention. I often go in a state of full concentration to analyze something and when i do that i dont
look to bright

All forms of observation games will sharpen your skills. feks: go into a room close your eyes and remember everything inside it.
I have played these games so often that they have become a part of my normal day (did i hear anyone scream obsessive-compulsury disorder??)

This is all good and well, but if you dont know what youre looking for whats the point?? Let`s take a few examples:
First of all you need to remember that women and men send out different signals even for the emotions.

Stress: This is a easy one. neck touching always accompanies stress. This goes for both genders. Exactely which area of the neck is different from person to person but, i bet my life when someones telling you a load of crap one of there hands will end up stroking or massaging the neck area.
Why? This is of lesser importance but this area is full of nerve endings and when these are stroked they reduce blood pressure and heart
rate. Note that men are more robust in there movements and stroking.

Lying: wouldent it be great to know when someone was luying to you?
Women have a tendency to touch them selves in the region below the adams apple (I`m norwegian. Don`t blame
me for not knowing the name of every part of the body) while filling you`re eares with lies. I see this all the time and soon
you will too.

Both genders loves to touch theire face while lying. stroking face. rubbing the nose. Rubbing the front of there head. (can i write forehead here

?)
We love to touch the face while lying. And with a little practice it aint hard to see when the scratching/touching derives from
telling a lie. it just doesent look natural.

Licking/moistening the lips is also a tell of a lie. One girl i know always goes for the hair
when a lie is imminant. Why?. We do these things while bluffing to calm ourselves. One of my co workers- a male by the way
grabs his collar and drags it away from the skin. Nevarro calls this a neckventilator and is a sure sign of someone tellling a lie.

All the tells i have mentioned above is located in the face. But the thing is that it`s not the face that reveals the most. ever since
we were young we have learned to conceal what we really mean.. but no one i have met outside the pokerworld knows that the true
tells of what someone is feeling is located further down. the feet to be exactely.

Some people will argue and say you can learn more from the eyes. Good ! Great!. if you can watch another persons pupils from
2 meters away in semi good lightning have fun- go mad. I can`t so i have developed a fetish for feets. aah. feets. you gotta love em.
In a non sexual way i mean... these bad boys send out so much information and no one is aware of it. Feets are a candyshop for
information and while someone may be good at hiding emotions in there face. feet seldom lie. Working as a bouncer i have plenty of time
observing people and the most ammusing thing i see is "happy feet".

HAPPY FEET:
Remember this guy who came in about 9 o clock and sat down not to far from the bar. (noticed the time because people seldom come out here before 12) I watched him and after about two minutes it was obvious he was meeting a woman. And this guy was real nervous.. He had real nice clothes on and he didnt look to comfortable in them so i figured he had dressed up for a woman right? (it could also have been for a guy but i wont go down that street)
and he looked at his watch all the time. So.. we got a dressep up, nervous man looking at the watch all the time. What does that tell us.? Well.. My guess was
that he didn`t know the woman comming all to good. I mean: you dont piss youre pants waiting for someone you`re familiar and comfortable with?.

And the clothing: He wanted really to look his best even if that ment being uncomfortable. Looking at the watch. Same nervousness and to speculate: maybe a little afraid she wouldent show up, but Thats as i said speculating.

And then the woman showed up. She had brought another woman with here Let`s talk about that first.
What can we learn from that? Maybe she wasn`t comfortable alone with him?
Well Then why would she even meet him in he first place? mybe she brought here friend
to evaluate him?? Possible. God knows what these women are thinking.. Or as a stress reliever. -To have someone entartain in those nasty silent moments between topics to discuss
Thats my guess. This guy wasn`t in the top of the confidence store and didn`t figure him for the too talkative guy.

Anyway. As i was saying. When she walked into my bar and saw him she smiled and waived pointing to the bar indicating they were gonna grab a
drink before going over to him.

I looked back at him and what did i see?? What did i see? A calm face not looking to excited over here arrival, but i also saw happy feet
and there was a whole lot of shaking going on!!!His feet were wigging and bouncing and if you haven`t guessed it yet: That`s a good sign.
Another thing i noticed was that that the tempo he was drinking his beer in got a whole lot more frequent. From almost not touching the
beer before she came he all of a sudden got real thirsty.

So what can you learn from this story? Well... You learn to read people what they are feeling and act according to it. Like in the story above. The man was well diciplined not showing the woman that he was really REALLY happy to see here, but his feet expressed what the face was hiding.

To sum up feet: happy feet is good feet. people with happy feet... well it kinda lies in the name doesen`t it??
feet turning away: This is something i really hate. When you crave attention like i do and you see that the person you are
trying to impress SO SO hard has turned his/here feet away from you...also accompanied by lips that are sealed tight shut and his/here eyes are watching something a million miles away (the daydreamer stare)...

Thats about the time i start touching my neck and sending
out signals that i am stressed. I also tend to "squuek" my feet toghether- pigdeon feet is a good description. the feet point towards another.

Thats a sure sign of someone being nervous and uncomfortable. The person im talking to obviously wants to be anywhere else then in that
spot with me. This example is not too good because most people don`t send out so many obvious signals, but you get the idea. We send out signals so often that picking them up is not the problem but interperting them is.

Remember that this article is just the tip of the iceberg and you will not be a master at the art of spotting tells in one day, but by reading this you are on you`re way

FrankBjornar- frankiebj -

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09-16-2008, 08:29 PM Post subject: Re: Tells beyond the green felt

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Originally Posted by frankiebj

A lot of my knowledge i have to give FBI special agent Joe Navarro credit for. His book: read em and reap took me inside a new world. After 25 years of interregating suspects this man could probably tell what i was thinking about the same time i did. I really recommend that book to everyone interested

+++ this. This is a book I will go back over again and again and again when playing live games.

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